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