Hello On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 02:41 -0800, Avuton Olrich wrote: > Hello, > > I just saw a thread on the LKML a minute ago asking about the state of > getting the patch into vanilla linux. I read Andrew Morton's post > about a month ago stating that it could happen soon, but was unlikely > due to there not actually being a need for it to go into mainline (no > major distro default, etc...). I was wondering, myself, earlier in the > day what the state of the patch was, if anything further has been said > about getting it into mainline. Was also wondering if there was a lot > of work going into it right now, or are people tied up doing other > things? > > If anyone has time for an answer it'd be appreciated by everyone I'm sure, >
AFAIK, the most recent reason why reiser4 does not get included is that reiser4 developers have to change reiser4 to use generic code to implement read/write. AFAICS, reiser4 developers do not work on that.