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

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Gerrit Hannaert wrote:

>Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>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.
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>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 ;-).
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Test suites are what you use before burdening real testers with bugs 
that can be found other than the hard way.

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>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...
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What really infuriates me most is when vendors try to inhibit people 
from switching around.  I am lobbying the GSA (US agency that sets 
procurement policies) to try to get them to refuse to buy support 
contracts that are distro specific.

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Hans