Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:34:57 +0300 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1 |
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On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:24:58AM -0400, Michael Krufky wrote: > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:58:08PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > >> On Mon 2008-08-04 14:26:21, Tim Tassonis wrote: > >> > >Why is reiser4 still not in a vanilla kernel for > >> > >testing. I have had > >> > >to apply the reiser4 patches from -mm kernels to > >> > >vanilla based > >> > >patchset for over a year now. Reiser4 works fine, what > >> > >will it take to > >> > >get it included in vanilla? Here is a patch to add > >> > >reiser4 to > >> > >2.6.27-rc1: > >> > > > >> > >http://zen-sources.org/files/reiser4-for-2.6.27-rc1.patch > >> > > > >> > >-Ryan > >> > > >> > A good thing for a start would be to rename the whole > >> > thing to something else, for obvious reasons. > >> > >> Whats wrong with reiser4 name? > >> > >> Pavel > >> (or am I feeding a troll?) > > > > Not wanting a new filesystem named after a convicted murderer is not > > a trollish suggestion. > > Regardless of the murder conviction, I still believe that the guy > should get credit for his work.
Other filesystems are usually not named after people, e.g. ext2 is not named cardfs2 and jffs2 is not named woodhousefs.
> Reiserfs is a name that we all know of, regardless of how current we > are with the news (although you'd have to be PRETTY far behind if you > don't know about the crime) > > The current reiserfs filesystems aren't being renamed -- are they?? > > Does it really hurt to keep his name there? I think it should just go as-is.
You can agree or disagree with Tim, but it's not a trollish suggestion.
> -Mike
cu Adrian
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