From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christoph Hellwig Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:41:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20080414084141.GA29113@infradead.org> References: <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> <20080413161014.cb06964c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080414091639.4bd3879d@core> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andrew Morton , 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 bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:38888 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752021AbYDNImP (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:42:15 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080414091639.4bd3879d@core> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > I think the exceed them quite easily. The costs are almost nil, while > merging this provides another nice example fs (and one much easier to > follow than ext*) for hardware that does have a few users and will no > doubt get many more > > I wasn't aware Linus had introduced a new rule required 500 people sign > up to use a feature before it gets added ? I'm also very surprised by this, especially as it seems to be applied very selectively. This filesystems is an almost 0 maintainance burden unlike a lot of really crappy driver we're shoving in constantly.