From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161209AbXDWSHU (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:07:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161205AbXDWSHU (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:07:20 -0400 Received: from ns1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:57909 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161209AbXDWSHS (ORCPT ); Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:07:18 -0400 To: Andrew Morton Cc: Eric Hopper , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about Reiser4 References: <20070423020046.GA28477@omnifarious.org> <462C2E5B.1080008@redhat.com> <462C4858.3050006@redhat.com> <462C4D32.4000909@redhat.com> <462C5034.9090403@redhat.com> <20070423010445.454eda63.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070423135216.GA2744@omnifarious.org> <20070423104042.87b50bb3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> From: Andi Kleen Date: 23 Apr 2007 21:05:13 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20070423104042.87b50bb3.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 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 Andrew Morton writes: > > To get it unstuck we'd need a general push, get people looking at and testing > the code, get the vendors to have a serious think about it, etc. We could do > that - it'd require that the namesys people (and I) start making threatening > noises about merging it, I guess. My impression was that a lot of negative discussion came out of some of the user interface inventions in r4 (like sys_reiser4 and the new incompatible EA interface). I guess a good strategy to get it going would be to extract just a "core reiser4" out of it that is just a file system without any new interfaces like this. I would expect that reviewing that would be much smoother because people could actually concentrate on the technical details. -Andi