From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030241AbWGaQwZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:52:25 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030246AbWGaQwZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:52:25 -0400 Received: from 63-162-81-179.lisco.net ([63.162.81.179]:17882 "EHLO grunt.slaphack.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030241AbWGaQwY (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 12:52:24 -0400 Message-ID: <44CE3542.7030603@slaphack.com> Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 11:52:18 -0500 From: David Masover User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Macintosh/20060719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adrian Ulrich , "Horst H. von Brand" , ipso@snappymail.ca, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion References: <1153760245.5735.47.camel@ipso.snappymail.ca> <200607241806.k6OI6uWY006324@laptop13.inf.utfsm.cl> <20060731125846.aafa9c7c.reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> <20060731144736.GA1389@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20060731144736.GA1389@merlin.emma.line.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matthias Andree wrote: > Adrian Ulrich schrieb am 2006-07-31: >> Why are a lot of Solaris-people using (buying) VxFS? Maybe because UFS >> also has such silly limitations? (..and performs awkward with trillions >> of files..?..) > > Well, such "silly limitations"... looks like they are mostly hot air > spewn by marketroids that need to justify people spending money on their > new filesystem. I think the limitations are silly, and I'm not paid to say this. Besides, we're talking about a filesystem that will be free (and libre), so I don't see the point of marketroids, certainly not in this context. But let's not stoop to name-calling.