From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lincoln Dale Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 17:09:06 +1000 Message-ID: <42BE5492.4030903@cisco.com> References: <200506240241.j5O2f1eb005609@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <42BCD93B.7030608@slaphack.com> <200506251420.j5PEKce4006891@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42BDA377.6070303@slaphack.com> <200506252031.j5PKVb4Y004482@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> <42BDC422.6020401@namesys.com> <42BE3645.4070806@cisco.com> <42BE3A90.1090403@slaphack.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: <42BE3A90.1090403@slaphack.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: David Masover Cc: Hans Reiser , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Horst von Brand , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ReiserFS List David Masover wrote: >Ok, I'll bite. Hans put it best a moment ago: > > [..] you seem to have some misconceived notion that this is somehow a "ReiserFS versus XFS" or "ReiserFS versus ext3" case. l-k could do without those conspiracy theories. lets just stick to the facts. >No, as a user, I just want a working plugin architecture to play with >(I'm not *just* a user), and a working Reiser4 'cause it's fast, and I >am eager to see new improvements coming out of Namesys, instead of two >years spent trying to keep up with the vanilla kernel *and* adapt to >some unspecified, possibly unneccessary, decree of a benevolent dictator. > > one of the nice things about linux is the freedom open-source gives you. there is no reason why Hans cannot keep whatever proprietary mechanisms to do whatever fancy plugins he wants and you as a user can use until the cows come home. but just don't have the false expectation that just because something is 'kool' that its going to get into the kernel without rigorous peer review & approval cheers, lincoln. > >