From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 07:30:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 07:30:41 -0400 Received: from 98-CORU-X8.libre.retevision.es ([62.83.53.98]:37272 "HELO trasno.mitica") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Fri, 25 May 2001 07:30:22 -0400 To: Erik Mouw Cc: Hans Reiser , Andi Kleen , Andreas Dilger , monkeyiq , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Nikita Danilov Subject: Re: Dying disk and filesystem choice. In-Reply-To: <200105240658.f4O6wEWq031945@webber.adilger.int> <20010524103145.A9521@gruyere.muc.suse.de> <3B0D3C99.255B5A24@namesys.com> <20010524214641.E10968@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> X-Url: http://www.lfcia.org/~quintela From: Juan Quintela In-Reply-To: <20010524214641.E10968@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> Date: 25 May 2001 13:29:09 +0200 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >>>>> "erik" == Erik Mouw writes: erik> On Thu, May 24, 2001 at 09:53:45AM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote: >> No, reiserfs does have badblock support!!!! >> >> You just have to get it as a separate patch from us because it was >> written after code freeze. erik> IMHO we are not that deep into code freeze anymore. Freevxfs got added erik> in linux-2.4.5-pre*, so I think that a patch that adds a useful feature erik> like badblock support would be OK. A new filesystem don't touch anything if you don't use it. Some reasoning for inclusion of new drivers. Big changes in a working driver could make it not to work (very bad in the stable series). Later, Juan. -- In theory, practice and theory are the same, but in practice they are different -- Larry McVoy