From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org
 regarding reiser4 inclusion
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:56:17 -0400
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>, Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>, lkml@lpbproductions.com, Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, ReiserFS List <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
>>> of the story for me. There's nothing wrong about focusing on newer code,
>>> but the old code needs to be cared for, too, to fix remaining issues
>>> such as the "can only have N files with the same hash value". 
>>>
>> Requires a disk format change, in a filesystem without plugins, to fix it.
> 
> Well, too bad, if reiser3 is so broken it needs on-disk-format-change,
> then I guess doing that change is the right thing to do...

Actually, there is reiser4 brokenness lurking in Hans' statement, too:

A filesystem WITH plugins must still handle the standard Linux 
compatibility stuff that other filesystems handle.

Plugins --do not-- mean that you can just change the filesystem format 
willy-nilly, with zero impact.

	Jeff