Re: So - What's going on with Reiser 4?

Pekka Enberg
2006-01-20T13:13:57Z

Hi Andrew,

On 1/20/06, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> Well it is a bit. Current status is that we just don't have anyone who's
> sufficiently familar with VFS internals and idioms who has the
> time+inclination to sit down and work with the reiserfs developers to get
> the thing into a generally-acceptable state. Progress has been made over
> the past 12-28 months, but there's more to do. It's a huge piece of code
> and a lot of work to do this.

Has there been discussion on what's acceptable state? More
specifically, is fs/reiser4/page_cache.c and fs/reiser4/lock.c bits
going to be merged or are they expected to be merged with generic
code? What about the plugin bits?

Pekka