Re: reiser4 vs politics: linux misses out again

[Ed Tomlinson <tomlins@cam.org>]

On Sunday 10 July 2005 20:01, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Jim Crilly wrote:
> 
> > But in most of the changesets on the bkbits site you can go back over 2
> > years and not see anything from namesys people. Nearly all of the fixes 
> > commited in the past 2-3 years are from SuSe.

With Chris Mason's name attached?  Chris wrote the journaling support for R3
and worked for SUSE for a while (he may still?).   I also remember seeing quite
a few patches run though the reiser mailing list for comment...
  
> So, for the sake of argument, if IBM were to drop official support for JFS,
> we'd yank JFS out of the kernel even if there was someone else willing to
> support it?  Why does it now *matter* who supports it, as long as its being
> maintained?  And will we now block IBM's hypothetical JFS2 from the kernel
> if IBM, from the programmers up to the CEO, doesn't swear on their momma's
> grave that they'll continue to support JFS1, even if JFS1 is being
> supported by others?  Jeez, this is why it doesn't take a kernel dev to see
> the problems here, common sense seems to be an increasingly rare ingredient
> in these arguments against R4.  If I didn't know better, I'd think you were
> making this stuff up as you went along....