Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

Hans Reiser
2005-09-21T00:44:24Z

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