From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ric Wheeler Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:12:40 -0400 Message-ID: <4330B388.8010307@emc.com> References: <200509182004.j8IK4JNx012764@inti.inf.utfsm.cl> <432E5024.20709@namesys.com> <20050920075133.GB4074@elf.ucw.cz> <20050921000425.GF6179@thunk.org> <4330A8F2.7010903@emc.com> <4330ACE2.8000909@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4330ACE2.8000909@namesys.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Hans Reiser Cc: vitaly@thebsh.namesys.com, Theodore Ts'o , Pavel Machek , Horst von Brand , thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig , Denis Vlasenko , chriswhite@gentoo.org, LKML , ReiserFS List Hans Reiser wrote: > 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 I am not a big fan of formal committees, but would be happy to take part in any effort to standardize, code and test the result... ric