From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1423072AbXDXTjZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:39:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1423083AbXDXTjZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:39:25 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:60825 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1423072AbXDXTjY (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:39:24 -0400 Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 21:39:21 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: Edward Shishkin Cc: Andrew Morton , "Vladimir V. Saveliev" , Andi Kleen , Alex Zarochentsev , Linux kernel mailing list , Eric Hopper , Lex Lyamin , William Heimbigner , Rik van Riel , Xu CanHao Subject: Re: Question about Reiser4 Message-ID: <20070424193921.GA17129@one.firstfloor.org> References: <20070423111939.c876c9cc.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <462E17AF.7090604@namesys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <462E17AF.7090604@namesys.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Because there are unaddressed items in this todo list: > http://pub.namesys.com/Reiser4/ToDo > The main issues here are xattrs and support for blocksize != pagesize. I would consider both to be optional. We have various file systems in tree that don't support either (e.g. JFS only supports 4K blocks and OCFS2 doesn't support xattr) They shouldn't block merging. > 2. Who will maintain this? > > Currently there are two namesys employees working mostly on > enthusiasm. Divide them into 2 file systems, plus many people who > really help with fixing problems. Merging will probably be a peak of work for the necessary changes, then hopefully the work will be less once you're in tree because you don't need to track mainline anymore (assuming not to many bugs come in from users) -Andi