Re: (reiserfs) Re: New Linux 2.5 - 2.6 TODO (Alan Cox suggestsdelaying

[Andrew Lenharth]

> This basically is what all of this comes down to
> Do we
> A.	Add all these various journalling file systems in 2.4 and try and 
> 	sort out the common journalling/support code in 2.5
> 
> B.	Defer merging with the main tree on the assumption all the vendors
> 	can and will do merging so that when we put them in the main tree
> 	we do so with the common stuff sorted out properly first
> 
> And thats a call Linus has to make not me
> 
> > love to see a flood of email telling us the old format support is working
> > well on people's test machines (which all have recent, verified backups
> > too).

First, old format support works for me.  But my real .02$:
Debian, at least, uses an almost unpatched kernel.  All the users and
developers I've talked to after packaging reiserfs for Debian REALLY want
to see it in 2.4, since that't the only way it will become a standard part
of Debian and derived distributions.  Most of the people I've talked to
use reiser regularly, and are iching for the day when install programs ask
what fs to format a partition with: ext2 or reiserfs.  Thus B doesn't
really work for all "vendors".

It should be stressed that reiser is the only journalling file system
ready for inclusion right now.  But you all know that.

anyway, as I said, just my 2 cents...

Andrew Lenharth
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