From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Edward Shishkin Subject: Re: The reiser4 programming style is recursive? Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:12:13 +0300 Message-ID: <494157FD.5020708@gmail.com> References: <494035ED.4000706@gmx.de> <49404165.6050806@gmail.com> <49405D98.7000402@gmx.de> <4941467B.30308@gmail.com> <49414FC3.1040206@gmx.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49414FC3.1040206@gmx.de> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ralph Ulrich Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org Ralph Ulrich wrote: > Edward Shishkin wrote: > >>> will get there first! >>> >> And what? I don't see any problems if someone gets it prior >> to reiser4. >> >> >>> Edward, we are all waiting, what do you need for help? >>> >> To maintain at least one reiser4 subsystem would be real help.. >> However, it requires a victim in the person of some student(s), >> who is ready to kill the best years by sitting in front of monitor >> and studying reiser4 sources.. >> > > Upto recently I had a gentoo linux with your patches running on reiser4 > without problems (but with gentoo.org politics at the moment). > > Edward, what do you mean "reiser4 subsystem", > examples of subsystems: in kernel: . transaction manager; . flush manager; . tree operations (balancing); . unix file plugin; in user-space: . libaal and reiser4progs > "studying reiser4 sources" - debugging? > Currently there is nothing to debug, at least for beginners. The best way is to start with writing something useful, say xattrs support, or (meta)data checksums support. Edward.