From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161113AbWG1JZs (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:25:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161117AbWG1JZs (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:25:48 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:25060 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1161113AbWG1JZr (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Jul 2006 05:25:47 -0400 Message-ID: <44C97593.6030808@namesys.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 20:25:23 -0600 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060417 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Bunk CC: Luigi Genoni , andrea@cpushare.com, "J. Bruce Fields" , Nikita Danilov , Rene Rebe , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: the ' 'official' point of view' expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion References: <20060726134326.GD23701@stusta.de> <20060726142854.GM32243@opteron.random> <20060726145019.GF23701@stusta.de> <20060726160604.GO32243@opteron.random> <20060726170236.GD31172@fieldses.org> <20060726172029.GS32243@opteron.random> <20060726205022.GI23701@stusta.de> <20060726211741.GU32243@opteron.random> <20060727065603.GJ23701@stusta.de> <4284.192.167.206.189.1153989192.squirrel@darkstar.linuxpratico.net> <20060727100446.GK23701@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20060727100446.GK23701@stusta.de> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.93.0.0 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 Adrian Bunk wrote: > > >But you can not tell based on klive data whether the ratio of >reiser4:ext3 users in the world is more like 1:5, 1:500 or 1:50000. > ><-- snip --> > >I can't prove that the 1:5 ratio is wrong, but the point is that >claiming a 1:5 ratio was true based on the klive data is not better than >claiming it based on no data. > Yes, but I have been surprised that linux conference attendees all know about reiser4, so I think it is consistent with the notion that reiser4 usage may well be much much higher than one would expect of a filesystem that is not in the main tree, and which requires a lot of hassle to install. It is a datapoint. I think the level of hobbyist enthusiasm seen suggests that distros may gain market advantage by adding reiser4 support..... Hans