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

Jim Crilly
2006-07-25T22:50:03Z

On 07/25/06 05:17:48PM -0400, Horst H. von Brand wrote:
> Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
> > Wow, I would never have guessed our market share was that high as 1/5th
> > of ext3. I mean, you can't even get a distro which allows you to
> > install onto reiser4 without hours of work so far as I know. I guess
> > there are people who really do care about twice as fast.
>
> That makes the data /higly/ suspect: Most of the Linux users I know
> wouldn't know where to start to compile a kernel, forget about patching
> around. And of the minority who can, they mostly run machines in
> production, and won't dream of using non-distribution kernels, let alone
> custom patched ones.

Well if you take a look at the KLive webpage you'll see that there's only
485 computers providing data. I'm not trying to knock Andrea's project, but
the sample size is quite small and only really representative of people who
would be inclined to read lkml, patch their kernels, etc.

Jim.