Re: Reiser4 status as of this weekend

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Markus Törnqvist wrote:

>On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 02:45:25PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>Some users are saying that it is rock solid (please contradict dear 
>>readers).  We the developers can use iozone to make it crash by mmapping 
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>I haven't had problems for a long time.
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>Then again, I haven't used iozone ever.
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>>well structured for managing memory under that circumstance.   The clean 
>>fix for that for reiser4 given the way the Linux design is,  is 
>>substantial work to do right, and is in progress.  We currently have a 
>>fix that costs performance, and are fixing the performance issue (which 
>>is fixable but requires code....).
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>Would you say this is the biggest issue?
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It is the only issue that I know of.

>What about NFS?
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fixed by nikita recently but not released.  See next snapshot.

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>>We would probably have it ready to ship this week, but Nikita is leaving 
>>Namesys after having done a great job here for way too little pay, and 
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>This is terrible news...
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yeah, I agree.

> I'm sorry, I'm at a loss of words...
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>Nikita, hope to see you on IRC still and thanks for all the great
>work and the help you've given me and everyone else.
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>Best of luck.
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>>that means we need to have him and Saveliev spend a full week doing a 
>>code review before he goes, and Zam and I are busy earning the next 
>>month payroll money by doing work for digeo, and such is the free 
>>software "business".  Sigh.
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>This may be a tactless question, but what about the grant for implementing
>views? It was insufficient?
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It supports me and one programmer for the first 6 months.  I did not bid 
my being paid a high enough salary to pay the rest of the company on it, 
so in order to get get beyond phase 1, so I must work 2 jobs while 
having a long commute to one of them and running Namesys.  I have to do 
at least half the work in Phase 1 because we need to start the project 
by doing the architectural work....  Also, it requires that 2/3 of the 
work (by cost) be done in the US, and the moscow embassy has gone into 
total asshole mode and isn't giving work visas to most russians.  Still, 
we will try to get work visas in 6 months.  I hope that it being for DoD 
work will increase the chance of getting visas.

>Have you also considered making it easier for the community to write code?
>I'm not talking about write-access handed liberally to bitkeeper, but
>maybe some coding guide and stuff could be more prominently available?
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It is in the source code..... we have the best commented source code in 
the kernel (Andrew Morton is the only other kernel person who comments 
code well that I know of).

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>>So, stay tuned, and check again in two weeks.
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>Best of luck to the rest of you too.
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thanks