From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:10:14 -0700 Message-ID: <20080413161014.cb06964c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1208041121-26787-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> <20080412170304.54f139e2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413033344.GA27494@hash.localnet> <20080412205544.5e12a7d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> <1208121358.2700.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080413154459.4b2f125d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413234920.63711ca7@core> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Woodhouse , Miklos Szeredi , hch@infradead.org, me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:39339 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757267AbYDMXLC (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:11:02 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080413234920.63711ca7@core> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:49:20 +0100 Alan Cox wrote: > > I guess I can keep making this point in various ways until someone > > actually notices it: > > > > This filesystem has only 20 users. > > At the moment. And that probably exceeds Amiga users, 386 users, some of > the serial port users, several network card users ... > > In the past we've merged drivers for network cards where only two > existed in the world. Linus has repeatedly stated he wants to see stuff > people are using getting in. None of that means that merging this filesystem is the best decision. > Good clean code that doesn't affect the core > is good reference material. The reference block filesystem is ext2 (used to be minixfs) - there is no need for another. > I think you are (unusually) the one out of step here ? I appear to be the only one who is looking at the whole picture. Merging a new filesystem has costs - I don't need to enumerate them. Do the benefits of OMFS exceed them?