Messages in this thread | | | From | Vitaly Fertman <> | Subject | Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel | Date | Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:16:09 +0400 |
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On Wednesday 21 September 2005 07:05, Hans Reiser wrote: > Ric Wheeler wrote: > > > Hans Reiser wrote: > > > >> Ric Wheeler wrote: > >> > >> > >>> As an earlier thread on lkml showed this summer, we still have a long > >>> way to go to getting consistent error semantics in face of media > >>> failures between the various file systems. I am not sure that we even > >>> have consensus on what that default behavior should be between > >>> developers, so image how difficult life is for application writers who > >>> want to try to ride through or write automated "HA" recovery scripts > >>> for systems with large numbers of occasionally flaky IO devices ;-) > >> > >> > >> > >> If you'd like to form a committee to standardize these things, I will > >> ask Vitaly to work with you on that committee, and to have ReiserFS3+4 > >> conform to the standards that result. > >> > >> Hans > > > > > > I am not a big fan of formal committees, but would be happy to take > > part in any effort to standardize, code and test the result...
I would be happy to take part in it too.
> > ric > > > > > > > The committee could simply exchange a set of emails, and agree on > things. I doubt it needs to get all complicated. I suggest you contact > all the folks you want to be consistent with each other, send us an > email asking us to all try to work together, and then ask for proposals > on what we should all conform to. Distill the proposals, and then > suggest a common solution. With luck, we will all just say yes.:)
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