From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030580AbXDWDrD (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:47:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030622AbXDWDrD (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:47:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:40076 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030580AbXDWDrB (ORCPT ); Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:47:01 -0400 Message-ID: <462C2E5B.1080008@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 23:56:11 -0400 From: Rik van Riel User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (X11/20070130) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Hopper CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about Reiser4 References: <20070423020046.GA28477@omnifarious.org> In-Reply-To: <20070423020046.GA28477@omnifarious.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 Eric Hopper wrote: > I know that this whole effort has been put in disarray by the > prosecution of Hans Reiser, but I'm curious as to its status. It was in disarray well before. Many of the reiser4 features, like filesystem plugins, make more technical sense in the Linux VFS, but made more business sense for Namesys as a reiserfs 4 thing. That lead to a stalemate. > Is Reiser4 going to be going into the Linus kernel anytime soon? I wouldn't count on it.