Re: reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:24:58AM -0400, Michael Krufky wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:58:08PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> On Mon 2008-08-04 14:26:21, Tim Tassonis wrote:
> >> > >Why is reiser4 still not in a vanilla kernel for
> >> > >testing. I have had
> >> > >to apply the reiser4 patches from -mm kernels to
> >> > >vanilla based
> >> > >patchset for over a year now. Reiser4 works fine, what
> >> > >will it take to
> >> > >get it included in vanilla? Here is a patch to add
> >> > >reiser4 to
> >> > >2.6.27-rc1:
> >> > >
> >> > >http://zen-sources.org/files/reiser4-for-2.6.27-rc1.patch
> >> > >
> >> > >-Ryan
> >> >
> >> > A good thing for a start would be to rename the whole
> >> > thing to something else, for obvious reasons.
> >>
> >> Whats wrong with reiser4 name?
> >>
> >>                                                       Pavel
> >>                       (or am I feeding a troll?)
> >
> > Not wanting a new filesystem named after a convicted murderer is not
> > a trollish suggestion.
> 
> Regardless of the murder conviction, I still believe that the guy
> should get credit for his work.

Other filesystems are usually not named after people, e.g. ext2 is not 
named cardfs2 and jffs2 is not named woodhousefs.

> Reiserfs is a name that we all know of, regardless of how current we
> are with the news (although you'd have to be PRETTY far behind if you
> don't know about the crime)
> 
> The current reiserfs filesystems aren't being renamed -- are they??
> 
> Does it really hurt to keep his name there?  I think it should just go as-is.

You can agree or disagree with Tim, but it's not a trollish suggestion.

> -Mike

cu
Adrian

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