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On Sunday 17 February 2008, James wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann <at> tu-clausthal.de> |
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writes: |
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> > > > that is bullshit. If you have ever followed the ml you would |
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> > > > now it. |
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> > > |
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> > > It's been languishing in -mm for ages, never mind any progress |
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> > > that namesys itself might make with their own code. |
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> Well, I'm no Reiser expert, but a few days ago I was reading at |
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> kernel newbies and following some links about the future of the linux |
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> kernel, when I stumbled across something that really makes sense |
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> concerning why many influential kernel devs do not like (trust) |
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> reiser4fs: |
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> That is the style allows for 'loadable' modules (er the nomenclature |
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> is plugin) and the resulting fear that if reiser4 is 'blessed' and |
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> included into the linux kernel, then those with advanced knowledge |
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> could write very specific modules (of the commercial kind) for niche |
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> feature that just plug into reiser4fs. |
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A further HUGE objection is the extreme difficulty in writing an fsck |
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for such a filesystem. |
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Don't get me wrong, Hans' ideas for reiser4 are extremely |
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forward-thinking and possibly very useful and valuable. Imagine the |
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possibilities - the user could tune the filesystem to do whatever he |
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needed, plug in modules optimized for the data the user is using, even |
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in ways that namesys never predicted. WinFS could actually happen, just |
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not on Windows <evil grin> |
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However, not at the expense of existing deployments and methods. An fsck |
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is an absolute requirement for Linux's largest user-base on something |
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with the scope of reiser4. |
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As you say, the prime reason is probably that other kernel devs are fed |
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up with the person called Hans Reiser and simply ignore him or won't |
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deal with him. That is their right, it applies in every other facet of |
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life. |
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There's a parallel between reiser4/XFS and Con's cpu scheduler versus |
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Ingo's. Linus trusts Ingo and has complete faith that Ingo will |
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continue to maintain his work. He didn't have the same warm fuzzy |
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feeling with Con. There's a truck-load more at stake with new kernel |
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sub-systems that purely code quality, regardless of what the PR line |
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syays |
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-- |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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