From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759457AbYDNIVd (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:21:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754101AbYDNIVW (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:21:22 -0400 Received: from outpipe-village-512-1.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:52947 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751866AbYDNIVV (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Apr 2008 04:21:21 -0400 Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:16:39 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Andrew Morton Cc: David Woodhouse , Miklos Szeredi , hch@infradead.org, me@bobcopeland.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 Message-ID: <20080414091639.4bd3879d@core> In-Reply-To: <20080413161014.cb06964c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <1208041121-26787-1-git-send-email-me@bobcopeland.com> <20080412170304.54f139e2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413033344.GA27494@hash.localnet> <20080412205544.5e12a7d4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413080130.GA9622@infradead.org> <20080413012001.8d7967f4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413082815.GA20108@infradead.org> <1208121358.2700.4.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <20080413154459.4b2f125d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080413234920.63711ca7@core> <20080413161014.cb06964c.akpm@linux-foundation.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.3.1 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Organization: Red Hat UK Cyf., Amberley Place, 107-111 Peascod Street, Windsor, Berkshire, SL4 1TE, Y Deyrnas Gyfunol. Cofrestrwyd yng Nghymru a Lloegr o'r rhif cofrestru 3798903 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > I appear to be the only one who is looking at the whole picture. > > Merging a new filesystem has costs - I don't need to enumerate them. Do > the benefits of OMFS exceed them? 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 ? Alan