From: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com>,
pavel@suse.cz, pmarques@grupopie.com, greg@kroah.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 02:59:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <423F89F7.9090407@lougher.demon.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050321190436.28f76a65.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Josh Boyer <jdub@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>>This is a useful, stable, and _maintained_ filesystem and I'm a bit
>> surprised that there is this much resistance to it's inclusion.
>
>
> Although I've only been following things with half an eye, I don't think
> there's a lot of resistance. It's just that squashfs's proponents are
> being asked to explain the reasons why the kernel needs this filesystem.
> That's something into which no effort was made in the initial patch release
> (there's a lesson there).
That is my fault. When I did the patch I was concentrating on providing
code not on "selling" the filesystem. This is probably a cultural
thing, coming from Britain, I actually thought such "strong arm" sales
tatics would be tasteless and inappropropriate.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-22 4:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-14 16:30 Phillip Lougher
2005-03-15 1:06 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-15 1:14 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-15 3:01 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-15 17:16 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-15 18:21 ` Paulo Marques
2005-03-21 10:14 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-21 15:56 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-21 19:00 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-21 18:03 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-21 22:49 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-22 2:41 ` Josh Boyer
2005-03-22 2:58 ` David Lang
2005-03-22 3:04 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-22 2:59 ` Phillip Lougher [this message]
2005-03-22 5:32 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-22 3:34 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-22 5:37 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-03-21 22:32 ` Mws
2005-03-21 22:44 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-21 22:54 ` Mws
2005-03-22 3:36 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-22 7:19 ` Stefan Smietanowski
2005-03-22 5:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2005-03-21 18:08 ` Mws
2005-03-21 18:54 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-21 22:23 ` Mws
2005-03-21 22:31 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-21 22:47 ` Mws
2005-03-21 22:56 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-15 3:12 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-15 23:25 ` Phillip Lougher
2005-03-16 0:57 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-16 1:04 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-16 4:19 ` Matt Mackall
2005-03-15 5:38 ` Greg KH
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