From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:21:15 -0700 Message-ID: <20080414162115.bf374072.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <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> <20080414084141.GA29113@infradead.org> <4803C4A8.7020304@garzik.org> <20080414141139.10d4d4c0.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080414223230.GA32389@2ka.mipt.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: jeff@garzik.org, hch@infradead.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, dwmw2@infradead.org, miklos@szeredi.hu, me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org To: Evgeniy Polyakov Return-path: Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:54147 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755859AbYDNXfH (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:35:07 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080414223230.GA32389@2ka.mipt.ru> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:32:31 +0400 Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: > Hi. > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:11:39PM -0700, Andrew Morton (akpm@linux-foundation.org) wrote: > > A new filesystem such as the one he's working on would, one hopes, be used > > by an increasing number of people. Whereas I expect that the already-tiny > > number of people who use OMFS will *fall* over time. > > It is not about pohmelfs, but any other. When did you look at fs/kconfig > last time? There are lots of filesystems which were obsoleted way before > I first time started using computer. Hope you saw with pdp-11 in action > (I only on pictures), since sysv filesystem is very unlikely to get new > users today. Or befs - beos is very widely distributed os. Others? This has already been addressed. > > Guys, a few years ago Linus's rule of thumb for merging an FS was, > > approximately, "it is already being shipped by distros". The bar is _much_ > > lower than that now. Largely because I personally think that it should be. > > And Linus was wrong. This can not happen? He can not change his opinion? > Btw, which distro shipped ext4 before it was included (splitted) into > mainline? > > Just say no to double standards! I've already told you that we no longer apply such a strict test.