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Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/14] GFS
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On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 16:57 +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >* Why use your own journalling layer and not say ... jbd ?
> 
> Why does reiser use its own journalling layer and not say ... jbd ?

because reiser got merged before jbd. Next question.

Now the question for GFS is still a valid one; there might be reasons to
not use it (which is fair enough) but if there's no real reason then
using jdb sounds a lot better given it's maturity (and it is used by 2
filesystems in -mm already).