> > There is a lot of work to be done to get the journalling layer nicely arranged to do
> > the right things and to do them right for XFS, ext3 and Reiserfs - not 2.4 material
> > by any means.
>
> that would be a real shame. having *some* journaled FS in the official
> distribution would make a HUGE difference in mindshare. if ext3 is
> usable now, it should DEFINITELY go in 2.3. getting three journaled FS's
> to play together sounds like something to fix in 2.5, but 2.4 definitely
> needs at least one.
Sorry. If it's stable - it is. If it isn't - including it into official
stable tree is a _real_ shame. Especially if the rationale is getting
mindshare. Admittedly, it's _way_ past the brochureware stage, but
still... Such things reek with Big Blue. Besides, let SCT decide at which
point he will consider it OK for inclusion into -stable. AFAICS nothing
like that had been publicly said. ext3 _is_ a nice thing; have some
respect to its author, will you?
> it's not as if kernel changes to support journaling have wide
> (that is, user-space, or touches-every-driver) repercussions...
How about "touches next to every VFS assumption regarding the caches"?
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