Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

Ric Wheeler
2005-09-21T01:13:14Z

Hans Reiser wrote:
> Ric Wheeler wrote:
>
>
>>As an earlier thread on lkml showed this summer, we still have a long
>>way to go to getting consistent error semantics in face of media
>>failures between the various file systems. I am not sure that we even
>>have consensus on what that default behavior should be between
>>developers, so image how difficult life is for application writers who
>>want to try to ride through or write automated "HA" recovery scripts
>>for systems with large numbers of occasionally flaky IO devices ;-)
>
>
> If you'd like to form a committee to standardize these things, I will
> ask Vitaly to work with you on that committee, and to have ReiserFS3+4
> conform to the standards that result.
>
> Hans

I am not a big fan of formal committees, but would be happy to take part
in any effort to standardize, code and test the result...

ric