Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

Jeff Garzik
2006-07-27T17:56:35Z

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>>> of the story for me. There's nothing wrong about focusing on newer code,
>>> but the old code needs to be cared for, too, to fix remaining issues
>>> such as the "can only have N files with the same hash value".
>>>
>> Requires a disk format change, in a filesystem without plugins, to fix it.
>
> Well, too bad, if reiser3 is so broken it needs on-disk-format-change,
> then I guess doing that change is the right thing to do...

Actually, there is reiser4 brokenness lurking in Hans' statement, too:

A filesystem WITH plugins must still handle the standard Linux
compatibility stuff that other filesystems handle.

Plugins --do not-- mean that you can just change the filesystem format
willy-nilly, with zero impact.

Jeff