Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

Hans Reiser
2005-09-21T03:05:22Z

Ric Wheeler wrote:

> Hans Reiser wrote:
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>> Ric Wheeler wrote:
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>>> 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 ;-)
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>> 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
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> 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...
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> ric
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The committee could simply exchange a set of emails, and agree on
things. I doubt it needs to get all complicated. I suggest you contact
all the folks you want to be consistent with each other, send us an
email asking us to all try to work together, and then ask for proposals
on what we should all conform to. Distill the proposals, and then
suggest a common solution. With luck, we will all just say yes.:)

Hans