Re: Formal Reiser4 inclusion and todo list?

[Christian Stroetmann <stroetmann@ontolinux.com>]

Aloha Glenn;

At the 28.07.2010 17:21, you (doiggl@velocitynet.com.au) wrote:
>    
>> The following items are still unaddressed:
>>
>> 1. running igrab() in the writepage() path is really going to hammer
>>     inode_lock.  Something else will need to be done here.
>>
>> 2. Running iput() in entd() is a bit surprising.  iirc there are various
>>      
>    
>> ways
>>     in which this can recur into the filesystem, perform I/O, etc.  I
>> guess it
>>     works..
>>     But again, it will hammer inode_lock.
>>
>> 3. the writeout logic in entd_flush() is interesting (as in "holy cow").
>>     It's very central and really needs some good comments describing
>>      
> what's
>    
>>     going on in there - what problems are being solved, which decisions
>>      
> were
>    
>>     taken and why, etc.
>>
>> 4. reiser4_wait_page_writeback() needs commenting.
>>
>> 5. reading the comment in txnmgr.c regarding MAP_SHARED pages: a number
>>      
> of
>    
>>     things have changed since then.  We have page-becoming-writeable
>>     notifications and probably soon we'll always take a pagefault when a
>>     MAP_SHARED page transitions from pte-clean to pte-dirty (although I
>> wouldn't
>>     recommend that a filesystem rely upon the latter for a while yet).
>>
>> Feel free to address them.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Edward.
>>      
> Has the number of items reduced at all ?
> just curious
> Cheers Glenn
>    

I haven't looked at the code since several years. But as far as I have 
followed the development, all of the patch sets since then (April 2009) 
were only of cosmetical nature, or said with other words, to keep it 
coping with changes at different positions, like eg. VFS.
And in a handful of blogs I got no additional/other informations, 
despite that the maintainer is working at a company in the field of 
another file system since the end of last year, so that he has only few 
time for Reiser FSs, and also that the opinions are that the project is 
dead.

Cheerio
Christian *<:o)   O>-<   -(D)>-<