From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stefan Traby Subject: Re: Fwd: reiser4 non-free? Date: Sun, 2 May 2004 23:03:53 +0200 Message-ID: <20040502210353.GA9218@hello-penguin.com> References: <20040424193246.GA2490@raptus.homelinux.org> <200405010026.59064.camel78@iprimus.com.au> <40928521.2080107@namesys.com> <200405011303.07645.camel78@iprimus.com.au> <40954804.6050901@namesys.com> Reply-To: Stefan Traby Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40954804.6050901@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Hans Reiser Cc: camel78@iprimus.com.au, reiserfs-list@namesys.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. -- ciao - Stefan