From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lars Marowsky-Bree Subject: Re: reiserfs on redhat advanced server? Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 13:39:43 +0100 Message-ID: <20030131123943.GH15359@marowsky-bree.de> References: <20030130173522.3aa4d0e1.pegasus@nerv.eu.org> <3E397A19.60409@namesys.com> <20030130234142.E8448@vestdata.no> <3E3A6071.6060102@namesys.com> <20030131115333.GC15359@marowsky-bree.de> <3E3A67AE.4050601@namesys.com> <20030131122147.GE15359@marowsky-bree.de> <3E3A6D76.7080300@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3E3A6D76.7080300@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Hans Reiser Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On 2003-01-31T15:35:02, Hans Reiser said: > I understand and support being pissed at Linus for calling it 2.4.0 when = > it wasn't stable enough before 2.4.18 because VM and VFS were still=20 > being changed, but Marcelo is pretty stable in all of his official=20 > releases, and it is easy to get him to take good code. No wonder, Marcelo came 18 minors later. Those kind of release cycles would= be quite inacceptable. > >>From "buzzwords" like 'enterprise features missing' or missing support > >>for > >hardware to different schedulers, accomodations for IHVs/ISVs which > >mainline doesn't want (yet) etc. The way it works seems to be that distr= os > >test drive a lot of code before it gets merged into mainline, at the > >expense of mainline being slightly behind quite often. > So it should be the mainline that is certified.... Woot? Mainline tends to crash under Oracle or SAP, for example, lacks drive= rs etc. Yeah, this is a problem, but don't bitch at the distros about it, but = at the driver developers etc. > I am not really opposed to vendors shipping their own kernels and=20 > supporting them, but I am opposed to them not supporting an official=20 > stable Marcelo kernel unless they have a specific reason not to.=20 This is a pointless discussion. The specific argument is "Support cost". End of discussion. Sincerely, Lars Marowsky-Br=E9e --=20 Principal Squirrel=20 SuSE Labs - Research & Development, SuSE Linux AG =20 "If anything can go wrong, it will." "Chance favors the prepared (mind)." -- Capt. Edward A. Murphy -- Louis Pasteur