Re: State of the Reiser4 FS

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Avuton Olrich wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I just saw a thread on the LKML a minute ago asking about the state of
>getting the patch into vanilla linux. I read Andrew Morton's post
>about a month ago stating that it could happen soon, but was unlikely
>due to there not actually being a need for it to go into mainline (no
>major distro default, etc...).
>
Can you supply a reference to this post?  The only distro which is not
influenced by performance numbers when selecting a filesystem is RedHat,
and most of the rest are just waiting to be sure that politics will not
kill reiser4 inclusion.  I am sure I can come up with a "we will support
it if you let it in" petition of distros if such a silliness is needed.

> I was wondering, myself, earlier in the
>day what the state of the patch was, if anything further has been said
>about getting it into mainline. Was also wondering if there was a lot
>of work going into it right now, or are people tied up doing other
>things?
>
>If anyone has time for an answer it'd be appreciated by everyone I'm sure,
>
>Gratefully,
>
>avuton
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