Re: WinFS beta out

[Marc Perkel <marc@perkel.com>]

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Hans Reiser wrote:

>Jeff Mahoney wrote
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>>The current implementation is hardly what I had envisioned ACLs and
>>xattrs being on reiserfs -- but was the only solution we could find to
>>still allow the filesystem to be mounted on an earlier kernel.
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>>An ideal solution would have been to introduce reiserfs v3.7 with a new
>>magic, and add feature versioning to the superblock, similar to the way
>>ext[23] does it. I felt that would have been met with much, much more
>>resistance than the implementation I ultimately presented.
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>I understand that you meant well, and we just honestly disagree about
>when to code freeze a stable release and put all the new stuff in the
>next release.  I would never release code that dramatically reduces
>performance to the point of eliciting the remarks in this thread by the
>users, and that too is an honest disagreement.  I was offered money by
>more than one entity to do the design you did, and refused the money.
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>All of what you wish you could have done differently is easily done in
>reiser4 because of plugins, and acls in reiser4 will happen when someone
>offers money (and they will, I am sure of it).
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I have to question the decision to freeze existing code when the new 
code isn't finished. For what it's worth I've switched to EXT3 because I 
want ACLs. I hope to come back to ReiserFS some day but right now it 
just doesn't have the features I need now. Abandoning Reiser 3 is going 
to end up losing you part of market share because EXT3 has made a lot of 
advances.

I'm still a fan and looking forward to Reiser 4. Just not sure what I 
can do to help. I'll offer you free spam filterinf Hans if that hels a 
little. I have the best spam filter on the planet.



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