Re: Question about Reiser4

William Heimbigner
2007-04-23T06:14:07Z

On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Rik van Riel wrote:
> William Heimbigner wrote:
>
>> However, is the code really in such a shape that the community doesn't
>> want to maintain it? Obviously there's a significant number of people
>> interested in reiser4 - if there weren't, questions like this wouldn't
>> keep getting asked.
>
> There are people interested in using it, yes.
>
> However, nobody appears to have stepped up to maintain the code.
> If somebody really wanted to maintain the code, there would be a
> new maintainer already.

On that note, what exactly is wanted for (assuming there was a maintainer)
reiser4 to be suitable for inclusion in the kernel? To my knowledge (and
I'll admit, I haven't looked in to it very far) the primary reason for
rejection was that it broke coding standards.

If there was 1) a maintainer and 2) code that didn't break "coding
standards", would it be included in the kernel?

William Heimbigner
icxcnika@mar.tar.cc