From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262058AbVF0QhX (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 12:37:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262088AbVF0PBN (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:01:13 -0400 Received: from [81.2.110.250] ([81.2.110.250]:50124 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261255AbVF0OHI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Jun 2005 10:07:08 -0400 Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins From: Alan Cox To: Markus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?T=F6rnqvist?= Cc: Hans Reiser , David Masover , Horst von Brand , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <20050627091808.GC11013@nysv.org> References: <200506231924.j5NJOvLA031008@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <42BB31E9.50805@slaphack.com> <1119570225.18655.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> <42BB5E1A.70903@namesys.com> <1119609680.17066.81.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050627091808.GC11013@nysv.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Message-Id: <1119880888.27005.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 15:01:30 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Llu, 2005-06-27 at 10:18, Markus Törnqvist wrote: > Sure, "other people merge design-breakers and bugs" is NOT a justification > for merging Reiser4, of course, but Reiser4's track record has vastly > cleaned itself up. The discussion is about merging from -mm, not into -mm. The merge into -mm isn't at all under discussion so I don't the relevance of the comparison. > 0. Namesys addresses the code beautification reqs mentioned here earlier. > > 1. Merge Reiser4 sans metas into 2.6.13. > 2. Namesys can have a separate metas patch for testing. > 3. Gradually merge Reiser4 architecture into VFS and if this really > requires a 2.7, as (iirc) Valdis Kletnieks suggested, make it so. > Might do the rest of the kernel some good too. 0 and 1 look like the first right steps to take to me as well. That will allow people to use reiser4 and give it a good hammering see what comes out and how it benches in real life. Alan