From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: State of the Reiser4 FS
Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 12:43:57 -0800
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To: Jonathan Briggs <jbriggs@esoft.com>
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Jonathan Briggs wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:14 -0800, Hans Reiser wrote:
>[snip]
>  
>
>>They claim that if we don't use the ext3 code
>>in our fs then they will be forced to shoulder an extra burden to
>>maintain our code.  We are not allowed to specify that they should not
>>maintain our code at all.  I need to read more Kafka I think, it is hard
>>for me to understand it all.
>>    
>>
>
>Err, this actually does make a lot of sense Hans.
>
>The mainline Linux Kernel code is maintained by everyone that can
>convince Linus or a sub-maintainer to accept their patch.  In order to
>  
>
I am the reiserfs/reiser4 sub-maintainer.  So, if reiser4 works well,
and is faster than any other Linux FS, and it is,  maintaining it over
time is for me to worry about, not them.