Re: a hosed reiserfs

[mjt@nysv.org]

On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:40:31PM -0600, Burnes, James wrote:
>
>I would assume there is some money in there.  They do seem to fund
>various opensource activities.

As in events? Or really active software development?

Well, Reiser4 has some stuff that's yet todo and some stuff that'd
be nice to have and maybe even a bug or two, so I guess all money
would be welcome...

If the tail-packing bug would be fixed, or whatever remains, it'd
be great if Namesys wrote the online (profiling) repacker/resizer/fsck(?)
program to generate money. 

This would be even better if cryptcompress work would be done at the same 
time, since that's something people look forward to and something that's 
not quite there yet. Cryptcompress might be one reason for people to move
to Reiser4 and thus more buyers for the repacker.

Since feature-wise I don't see Reiser4 that lacking. Maybe the biggest issue
is of course viewports, but since that's coming by DARPA, there's stuff
like copy-on-capture and chdir to a non-executable file and syscalls.
But nothing mission critical or half-broken. Right?

>Maybe filling out an app for grant would be good.  Is there an available
>non-profit wrapper around Reiser4?  There must be some sort of shell for
>the DARPA funding to have happened.

Non-profit wrapper? You mean some non-profit "welfare" organization?
Why can't DARPA fund a company?
Or did/will they donate countless units of money through WorldPay? ;)

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mjt