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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.0
On Fri, Dec 19 2003, Hans Reiser wrote:
> Jens Axboe wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >I hope you don't expect to actually have something that's worthy of
> >being merged into 2.6.x in a months time?
> >
> >
> >
> Have you looked at the stability of the typical experimental feature?
> If we used that as a guide, we'd have sent it in 3 months ago.....;-)

I don't think that's true. Plus, a file system (even more true in the
case of reiser4) is a huge complex beast. A driver is a lot less
complex.

> We will have something we think is appropriate for inclusion as an
> experimental feature very soon now. Because our test scripts have
> become much more sophisticated, it means more when we say we cannot
> crash it, and it will go from experimental to stable faster than V3
> did. I won't predict how fast.

Well v3 was merged too soon to, but at that time there was a big motive
to do just that - get a journalled fs in the kernel. With v4 that just
isn't the case.

I don't doubt you have great testing scripts, but nothing beats real
life testing.

--
Jens Axboe

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