Re: reiser4 plugins

Horst von Brand
2005-07-13T02:42:22Z

David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> Hans Reiser wrote:
> > Horst von Brand wrote:
> >>Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
> >>>Stefan Smietanowski wrote:

[...]

> > Better to spend one's mind looking for bugs instead of this issue.....
>
> .....if bugs were seen as such a big deal.

> I think it's far easier to get into the kernel with something
> ludicrously buggy than something which actually changes fundamental
> behavior.

Wonder why....

[Fixing bugs in the $FOO driver or the $BAR filesystem is /easy/, fixing
bugs in "fundamental behaviour changes" is /extremely hard/.]

> That is, you can put in an FS which actually corrupts data
> (such as the old NTFS write support), so long as it doesn't break POSIX,
> or cause other weird restrictions like "No files named 'metas'"

Because that kind of problems are isolated. If you introduce a change that
affects /all/ filesystems, and that change later on has unfixable bugs, or
fundamental design issues, it is /a lot/ of work.

> Now, if we can decide that we don't care about being in the vanilla
> kernel, then we can just call it ".metas" or "lost+found" or whatever
> and get to work on bug fixes and other much-needed features such as a
> repacker.

Great!
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