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From: "Jörn Engel" <joern@logfs.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LogFS merge
Date: Fri, 2 May 2008 23:58:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080502215833.GG24080@logfs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0805021438180.5994@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On Fri, 2 May 2008 14:39:23 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Quite frankly, if that's the case, I'd *much* rather see that worked on 
> first, so that there aren't any format changes that are already known to 
> be pending before it even gets merged.
> 
> Would it be at all possible to try to do that, or is it just "too far 
> out"?

Definitely possible.  The last similar change happened in December and
took until March until I ran out of stupid regressions from it.  Most
likely there are still some I just haven't found yet.

The question is when to draw the line and say "This is useful as-is for
a sufficient number of users."  I don't have a good answer to it.  I
certainly expect more changes in the future, including format changes.
And if we wait for them all to happen, it won't get merged this decade.

Not sure.

Jörn

-- 
The only good bug is a dead bug.
-- Starship Troopers

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-02 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-02 13:32 LogFS merge Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 14:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-02 15:31   ` Christoph Hellwig
2008-05-02 20:33     ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 16:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2008-05-02 21:47   ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 17:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-02 20:21   ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 20:33     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-02 21:31       ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-02 21:39         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-02 21:58           ` Jörn Engel [this message]
2008-05-03  7:03             ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-03  9:11               ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-03  9:18                 ` Willy Tarreau
2008-05-03  9:37                   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-03  9:44                 ` Pekka Enberg
2008-05-03 11:06                   ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-03 17:16               ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-03 17:59                 ` Offtopic to: " David Collier-Brown
2008-05-02 17:29 ` Andi Kleen
2008-05-02 21:34   ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-05 20:31 ` Andrew Morton
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-05-03  9:29 matthieu castet
2008-05-03 12:00 ` Jörn Engel
2008-05-04 16:20   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-05-04 18:04     ` Josh Boyer

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