Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2007 05:57:53 +0000 (GMT) | From | William Heimbigner <> | Subject | Re: Question about Reiser4 |
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> William Heimbigner wrote: >> > Eric Hopper wrote: >> > > I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the >> > > prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status. >> > >> > It was in disarray well before. Many of the reiser4 features, >> > like filesystem plugins, make more technical sense in the Linux >> > VFS, but made more business sense for Namesys as a reiserfs 4 >> > thing. That lead to a stalemate. >> > >> Shouldn't it be a matter of stability though? > > A lot of other things matter. Things like a willingness to > maintain the code after it gets merged, or at least turning > the code into something the community is willing to maintain > if the original developers stop maintaining it. > >> Benchmarks suggest that reiser4 is a good file system; reiser4 is the >> successor to the already-accepted reiserfs; we've got experimental ext4 >> support but no reiser4 support, etc. > > Namesys kind of abandoned reiserfs after work on reiser4 > started. Taking in a new code base on such a track record > is not a good idea when the code is not in a shape where > the community wants to maintain it. > >> I don't see why something like plugins should matter. If it works enough >> to be marked as experimental, why shouldn't reiser4 support be included? >> It's a pain for me personally to have to patch any kernel with reiser4 >> support so I can use the reiser4 fs. > > You basically have three options: > > 1) keep patching every time you upgrade the kernel > > 2) use another filesystem > > 3) become the new reiser4 maintainer and turn the code > into something that Linus is willing to accept
I suppose. I have a feeling there's an underlying issue behind "code standards" (and even then, I think that code standards is ultimately an excuse for not integrating reiser4 support into the kernel, but that's just my opinion). However, is the code really in such a shape that the community doesn't want to maintain it? Obviously there's a significant number of people interested in reiser4 - if there weren't, questions like this wouldn't keep getting asked.
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