Re: reiserfs, xfs, ext2, ext3

Gregory Maxwell
2001-05-11T19:39:00Z

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 05:04:10PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > I think with the growing acceptance of ReiserFS in the Linux
> > community, it is tiresome to have to apply a patch again and again
> > just to get working NFS. 2.2 NFS horrors all over again.
>
> The zero copy patches were basically self contained and tested for 6 months.
> The reiserfs NFS hacks are ugly as hell and dont belong in the base kernel.
> There is a difference.

Does NFS server support for one of the included FSes not belong in the
kernel? or is it that a better way is possible and this ugly one should not
be included? If the latter, has anyone told Hans how to do it 'right' so he
can assign someone to the task?