From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 17:44:18 -0700
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To: Ric Wheeler <ric@emc.com>, vitaly@thebsh.namesys.com
Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>, Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>, thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Denis Vlasenko <vda@ilport.com.ua>, chriswhite@gentoo.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

Ric Wheeler wrote:

> As an earlier thread on lkml showed this summer, we still have a long
> way to go to getting consistent error semantics in face of media
> failures between the various file systems.  I am not sure that we even
> have consensus on what that default behavior should be between
> developers, so image how difficult life is for application writers who
> want to try to ride through or write automated "HA" recovery scripts
> for systems with large numbers of occasionally flaky IO devices ;-)

If you'd like to form a committee to standardize these things, I will
ask Vitaly to work with you on that committee, and to have ReiserFS3+4
conform to the standards that result.

Hans