From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: Incite into reiser5? Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2005 13:34:14 -0500 Message-ID: <43189B26.2030602@slaphack.com> References: <1125596442.5207.11.camel@jove> <1125685758.9150.8.camel@jove> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1125685758.9150.8.camel@jove> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Lares Moreau Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Lares Moreau wrote: > I'm looking into it because I am looking into doing a masters focusing > on distributed file systems. > There was a mention of reiser5 being distributed. I think that's the definition of reiser5. I think that 4, 5, and 6 (at least, maybe there's a 7?) are defined not in terms of when they will actually be done, but what features they will contain. If I remember correctly, 6 might not need 5 to be implemented first (but both need 4 for its plugin architecture). Or, in other words, the version number refers to a major, sweeping feature. 4 is plugins, 5 is distributed, and I don't remember understanding 6 very well -- but I was young when I read about it.