From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER. Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 00:58:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4619C7EF.30306@garzik.org> References: <46157B5B.5000602@gmail.com> <1175817921.18400.1183285196@webmail.messagingengine.com> <461592FB.5060507@zytor.com> <1175819681.20754.1183287946@webmail.messagingengine.com> <461596DE.2020802@zytor.com> <1175823288.25662.1183293506@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4615C780.5040407@zytor.com> <1175833931.8916.1183307802@webmail.messagingengine.com> <20070407191715.GG3510@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> <46186A5B.7010309@comcast.net> <4618BCAD.5000202@garzik.org> <4619AA52.5040702@comcast.net> <4619AFA9.8080801@garzik.org> <4619C3C8.5030707@comcast.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org To: "David H. Lynch Jr" Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:51816 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752848AbXDIE6Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Apr 2007 00:58:25 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4619C3C8.5030707@comcast.net> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org David H. Lynch Jr wrote: > Jeff Garzik wrote: >> David H. Lynch Jr wrote: >> >> I'm arguing against circular logic: the claim that one cannot >> determine reiser4's true usefulness unless its in the tree. >> >> The better method is to get a distro to add reiser4, _then_ if it >> proves worthy add it to the kernel tree. >> >> Not the other way around. > And is that how other filesystems made it into the tree ? In the case of most major filesystems, yes. Distros are a proving ground for new stuff, not the upstream kernel. > I regularly see drivers with very little in the way of testing go > straight nearly straight into the tree - without even getting tagged as > experimental. Hardware drivers are vastly different from filesystem drivers. Jeff