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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> I think the exceed them quite easily. The costs are almost nil, while
> merging this provides another nice example fs (and one much easier to
> follow than ext*) for hardware that does have a few users and will no
> doubt get many more
> 
> I wasn't aware Linus had introduced a new rule required 500 people sign
> up to use a feature before it gets added ?

I'm also very surprised by this, especially as it seems to be applied
very selectively.  This filesystems is an almost 0 maintainance burden
unlike a lot of really crappy driver we're shoving in constantly.