Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free?

[Stefan Traby <stefan@hello-penguin.com>]

On Sun, May 02, 2004 at 12:12:04PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:

> the main killer for 8 of the 9 reviewers, at least one of whom seemed to 
> think that it would make the project unlikely to get anywhere in the 
> Linux community....  )  I spent weeks on that proposal....

ooops. Hans, don't get me wrong now.
I really think that you have great visions and that you discovered
the golden rule: "visions are useless if you can't transform them
into reality".

I do not know if there any discussions about getting reiser4 into
the standard kernel but I guess some people are at least not
amused to see a random syscall that has a version number in
it's name to go into the standard kernel.
I didn't care - until you declared reiserfs3 obsoleted by reiser4
in public.

syscalls tend to have a longer expectation of life than
filesystems - I'm very sure that fork(2) is older than
ext2 - so please at least consider the removal of the
version number and think about active long-term support.

If the syntax of the reiser[4]()-syscall is really
as desribed on http://namesys.com (reiser4() System Call Description)
I do not expect that stuff will make it into the
mainstream kernel.

Please really don't get me wrong - I just remember
EHASHCOLLISION which was simply unacceptable for the
mainstream kernel - IIRC Chris patched it out not
many seconds before Linus accepted reiserfs - after
many discussions.

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  ciao - 
    Stefan