From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Masover Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:25:37 -0500 Message-ID: <432DB121.9030908@slaphack.com> References: <432AFB44.9060707@namesys.com> <20050918102658.GB22210@infradead.org> <200509181406.25922.chrivers@iversen-net.dk> <200509181532.57908.vda@ilport.com.ua> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200509181532.57908.vda@ilport.com.ua> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Denis Vlasenko Cc: Christian Iversen , Christoph Hellwig , chriswhite@gentoo.org, Hans Reiser , LKML , ReiserFS List Denis Vlasenko wrote: > If you want reiser4 included into mainline, do something. Like download > a patch and try to use it. Alright... > Last time I tried, it didn't work. Kernel locked up. Namesys was quick > with fix for the lockup, but then "ls ." failed to work. I sent all > the data (kernel version, fs image, etc) to Namesys but after several > email iterations it died out with no resolution. When was "last time"? > I will try again sometime. Maybe it got better. I have three boxes running Reiser4 for everything except /boot, and no problems yet, except an occasional missing feature, like a repacker/resizer. One's a Pentium 3, the other two are amd64s. I've had a total of one crash each on the amd64s, and one of those was while playing a game, and could easily have been the nvidia drivers. I can't reproduce the other one, and the box has been fine since -- and both amd64s are overclocked by 600 mhz, so I have a sneaking suspicion that it might have been hardware. No crashes yet on the Pentium 3, which isn't overclocked at all. No lost data yet either, in fact, I recovered from an essential 'rm -rf' of a Reiser4 partition, so I could even say Reiser4 (or rather, fsck.reiser4) has *found* data for me. For a long time, it's been painfully obvious that the reasons Reiser4 isn't in the kernel all have to do with things like coding style and politics. At this point, if I tried to do anything more than be an active user, I'd be so far out of my depth I'd need a life jacket.