From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: reiserfs on redhat advanced server?
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 17:20:24 +0300
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To: Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au>
Cc: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>, reiserfs-list@namesys.com

Russell Coker wrote:

>On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 14:55, Chris Mason wrote:
>  
>
>>The fact that nobody actually ships a vanilla kernel should make it
>>pretty clear the stock releases are not ready for the tasks our
>>customers need them for.  The fact that our customers pay us to add
>>patches instead of using the stock kernel for free is also important.
>>    
>>
>
>The fact that the patched kernels shipped by distributions appear to have 
>almost totally disjoint sets of patches is also noteworthy...
>
>  
>
and truly sad....  politics determines code...  and neither side is 
especially to blame for it --- it is simply herd sociology in action....

Though I must remember not to say this on lkml, the last time I 
suggested that herd sociology determined code acceptance, well....

-- 
Hans