From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932645AbVISVzU (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:55:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932659AbVISVzU (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:55:20 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net ([216.148.227.118]:42682 "EHLO rwcrmhc12.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932645AbVISVzT (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:55:19 -0400 Message-ID: <432F33C8.90908@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:55:20 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041217 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Davidsen CC: Denis Vlasenko , Christoph Hellwig , LKML , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel References: <432AFB44.9060707@namesys.com> <200509171415.50454.vda@ilport.com.ua> <200509180934.50789.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <200509181321.23211.vda@ilport.com.ua> <432F18DF.6020903@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: <432F18DF.6020903@tmr.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.90.1.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bill Davidsen wrote: > Denis Vlasenko wrote: > >> >> Maybe xfs shouldn't be accepted too, this may be an answer. > > > That argument is specious, and raises the chance that someone will > suggest that we learn from our mistakes. It wasn't a mistake to accept xfs, xfs is a great piece of technology. I haven't monitored their progress, but I am sure that they are diligently fixing bugs as they are reported. Guys, making a filesystem stable is hard, and once every known test passes without crashing, there is no substitute for masses of users finding bugs not hit by the tests, and getting them fixed. My point is merely that Hellwig could go and find flaws in the filesystem he worked on, XFS, if he chose to. I think he should.