Re: reiser4 inclusion?

[Christian Stroetmann OntoLab <stroetmann@ontolab.com>]

Hello Jason,
>
> Edward,
>
>> Please,
>> don't flood in this mailing list.
>> Go away!
>
> You are totally out of line here.
>
> First, please following mailing list etiquette and don't top post
>
> Second, Christian, like all others, have a right to post here. You may 
> not agree with his posts (or what he is doing with OntoFS), but that 
> does not give you the right to tell him to go away.
>
> Third, if the community only relied on you to progress reiserfs, it 
> has been years at this point and nothing significant. it is basically 
> somewhat dead.
>
> If there was more co-operation and less fighting, perhaps forking 
> would not need to be an issue, but with your head up your ass no 
> progress gets made, no leaps forward, nada, zip, zilch.
>
> -Jason
>
>> Christian Stroetmann OntoLab wrote:
>>> Dear Christian;
>>> You wrote:
>>>> With still no project page in sight,
>>> Under the label of my company and taking the full risk of losing
>>> reputation, in contrast to other well known Linux distributions and
>>> former supporters of R....4 fs which (partly) jumped off the train, I
>>> made the following offers in the past:
>>> 1. Support the R4 fs under the name R4.
>>> 2. Set up a project page or, on the wish of the developement
>>> community, a wiki.
>>> 3. Under an other name, which I've choosen and I'm not allowed to name
>>> in this mailinglist, I've have even developed another kind of file
>>> system.
>>>
>>> The results were:
>>> To 1.: No echo.
>>> To 2.: No replay.
>>> To 3.: I got a kindly "Go away" advice.
>>> And to give it the rest: I do have alternatives and if some persons
>>> think, that they can gain something by their destructive attitude,
>>> than I have to say: Okay, have a nice day.
>>>
>>> Being constructive, I think we need a new projcet management, maybe a
>>> new maintainer, or some bytes for archiving the digital waste.
>>>> I find it hard to track[0] the progress of the work being towards an
>>>> inclusion of reiser4 into mainline. Unable to help out with real
>>>> code, I look at the reiser4-for-2.6.29 diffstat (sans the fs/reiser4
>>>> parts!) and see:
>>>>
>>>> Documentation/Changes                         |   12
>>>> Documentation/filesystems/reiser4.txt         |   75
>>>> fs/Kconfig                                    |    1
>>>> fs/Makefile                                   |    1
>>>> fs/buffer.c                                   |    9
>>>> fs/fs-writeback.c                             |    5
>>>> include/linux/fs.h                            |    3
>>>> include/linux/mm.h                            |    2
>>>> mm/filemap.c                                  |    4
>>>> mm/page-writeback.c                           |   48
>>>> So, with 4 of them being "just" documentation and build magic, I take
>>>> it that we're 6 files and less than 100 lines of code away from at
>>>> least putting this file system into the new staging/ tree perhaps?
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>>
>>> I found it more and more jokeless, what is going on around this fs.
>>> Btw.: I can't and I won't follow the claims and resitances made by Al
>>> Viro and other hard core coders against R4 and HFS+, especially the
>>> arguments in the hardlink subject.
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Christian.
>>>>
>>>> [0] http://tinyurl.com/dexfq9
>>>>
>>> Sincerely
>>> Christian *<:o)
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I would really like to know, what was and is going on behind the scenes.
If Mr. Shishkin wants some kind of monetary support for his work, then I 
have to say: "Sorry, but not this way" and "The time is over since two 
years". That  means no money! You got me? Good.

Christian *<:o)