From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: reiserfs on redhat advanced server? Date: 31 Jan 2003 09:14:10 -0500 Message-ID: <1044022450.15685.171.camel@tiny.suse.com> References: <20030130173522.3aa4d0e1.pegasus@nerv.eu.org> <20030131160624.A12036@namesys.com> <1044021310.15684.154.camel@tiny.suse.com> <200301311458.59747.russell@coker.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200301311458.59747.russell@coker.com.au> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Russell Coker Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 08:58, Russell Coker wrote: > On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:55, Chris Mason wrote: > > The fact that nobody actually ships a vanilla kernel should make it > > pretty clear the stock releases are not ready for the tasks our > > customers need them for. The fact that our customers pay us to add > > patches instead of using the stock kernel for free is also important. > > The fact that the patched kernels shipped by distributions appear to have > almost totally disjoint sets of patches is also noteworthy... It certainly is. Different companies focus on different things, both based on their expertise and which customer/partner manages to influence them during the feature planning before a release. In the long term, the competition between us is good for linux, in the short term, we duplicate effort much more than we should. -chris