Re: a hosed reiserfs

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Markus Törnqvist wrote:

>On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 04:40:31PM -0600, Burnes, James wrote:
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>>I would assume there is some money in there.  They do seem to fund
>>various opensource activities.
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>As in events? Or really active software development?
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>Well, Reiser4 has some stuff that's yet todo and some stuff that'd
>be nice to have and maybe even a bug or two, so I guess all money
>would be welcome...
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>If the tail-packing bug would be fixed, or whatever remains, it'd
>be great if Namesys wrote the online (profiling) repacker/resizer/fsck(?)
>program to generate money. 
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>This would be even better if cryptcompress work would be done at the same 
>time, since that's something people look forward to and something that's 
>not quite there yet. Cryptcompress might be one reason for people to move
>to Reiser4 and thus more buyers for the repacker.
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>Since feature-wise I don't see Reiser4 that lacking. Maybe the biggest issue
>is of course viewports, but since that's coming by DARPA, there's stuff
>like copy-on-capture and chdir to a non-executable file and syscalls.
>But nothing mission critical or half-broken. Right?
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We do the core traditional fs stuff, which is far less than being a 
general purpose namespace.

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>>Maybe filling out an app for grant would be good.  Is there an available
>>non-profit wrapper around Reiser4?  There must be some sort of shell for
>>the DARPA funding to have happened.
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>Non-profit wrapper? You mean some non-profit "welfare" organization?
>Why can't DARPA fund a company?
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They do.;-)

Unfortunately the state department won't let my team into the US, and 
this particular (SBIR) darpa grant requires the work be done in the US.

Also, it starts slowly requiring my personal time heavily, pays not a 
lot to me, and then, what I just found out, after 5 months of doing the 
exploratory work, you have a 2/3 chance of not getting funded to do the 
serious funding phase of the work.

I will never apply for an SBIR again I think.  I cannot afford to waste 
5 months of design work and then not get funded, these grants are for 
students and new professors.

Oh, and the EU doesn't care much to fund non-europeans.

It all involves so much more than just doing good work and getting 
paid.... whine whine.;-)