From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: 2.6.9-mm1 Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:52:49 -0400 Message-ID: <417D5991.3050003@tmr.com> References: <20041022032039.730eb226.akpm@osdl.org><20041022032039.730eb226.akpm@osdl.org> <4179425A.3080903@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <4179425A.3080903@namesys.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Hans Reiser Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Reiserfs developers mail-list , ReiserFS List Hans Reiser wrote: > I would like to encourage its inclusion as an experimental filesystem > BEFORE vendors ship it. I think first putting experimental stuff in the > kernels used by hackers makes sense. I think it creates more of a > community. I think -mm *is* what is run by hackers. That said, do you really think that it is stable with 4k stack? (that's a real question, it wasn't for me in 2.6.8-mm? when I briefly tried it). I see the major benefits to people running heavy i/o load, like database and servers. And those are the users with the most to lose if it still has residual learning experiences. I do think that akpm is capable of deciding when it should go in without all this politicing, and I doubt he or Linus care if it makes a vendor kernel first, considering all the things in vendor kernels which NEVER get to mainline. -- -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com) "The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the last possible moment - but no longer" -me