Re: Status of reiserfs in Redhat 2.4.7-10 kernel ?

[Gerrit Hannaert <degerrit@web.de>]

Hans Reiser wrote:

> Test suites cannot compete with real users.  Marcelo gets lots of real
> users before he releases a final version, and the distros don't. 
> However, I would also add that a conservative person would wait until
> a few weeks after Marcelo releases, and confirm that it really was
> stable according to those on the linux kernel mailing list.

I think there is something to be said for test suites *and* for testing
by a good number of users, and new kernels should probably get a good
dose of both before running on any production system. You should
probably get as much testing as you can get, and excluding test suites
doesn't sound like a good idea to me - which may not be what Hans meant,
though ;-).

That said, I would really like the vendors' and 'vanilla' kernels to
converge a lot more than they do now... I don't like the idea that some
differences in the source trees have more 'historic' motivations than
being new features or bugfixes (just a hunch). Personally I've been
switching back and forth between vendor and patched 'vanilla' kernels
for the last few years...

- Gerrit