Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-04 Thread David Masover
Theodore Tso wrote: On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:55:57AM -0500, David Masover wrote: If I understand it right, the original Reiser4 model of file metadata is the file-as-directory stuff that caused such a furor the last big push for inclusion (search for Silent semantic changes in Reiser4):

Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-03 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 11:55:57AM -0500, David Masover wrote: If I understand it right, the original Reiser4 model of file metadata is the file-as-directory stuff that caused such a furor the last big push for inclusion (search for Silent semantic changes in Reiser4): The furor was caused

Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread Hans Reiser
Andrew Morton wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:26:55 +0100 Denis Vlasenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The reiser4 thread seem to be longer than usual. Meanwhile here's poor old me trying to find another four hours to finish reviewing the thing. Thanks Andrew. The writeout code is ugly,

Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 20:18 -0600, Hans Reiser wrote: Andrew Morton wrote: The writeout code is ugly, although that's largely due to a mismatch between what reiser4 wants to do and what the VFS/MM expects it to do. Yes. reiser4 writeouts atoms. Most of pages get into atoms via

Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread Andrew Morton
On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:24:37 +0400 Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The writeout code is ugly, although that's largely due to a mismatch between what reiser4 wants to do and what the VFS/MM expects it to do. Yes. reiser4 writeouts atoms. Most of pages get into atoms via

Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread Vladimir V. Saveliev
Hello On Tue, 2006-08-01 at 07:33 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:24:37 +0400 Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The writeout code is ugly, although that's largely due to a mismatch between what reiser4 wants to do and what the VFS/MM expects it to do.

Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread David Masover
Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Do you think that if reiser4 supported xattrs - it would increase its chances on inclusion? Probably the opposite. If I understand it right, the original Reiser4 model of file metadata is the file-as-directory stuff that caused such a furor the last big push for

Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread Nate Diller
On 8/1/06, Andrew Morton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 01 Aug 2006 15:24:37 +0400 Vladimir V. Saveliev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The writeout code is ugly, although that's largely due to a mismatch between what reiser4 wants to do and what the VFS/MM expects it to do. Yes. reiser4

Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread Nate Diller
On 8/1/06, David Masover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: Do you think that if reiser4 supported xattrs - it would increase its chances on inclusion? Probably the opposite. If I understand it right, the original Reiser4 model of file metadata is the file-as-directory

Re: reiser4: maybe just fix bugs?

2006-08-01 Thread David Masover
Nate Diller wrote: On 8/1/06, David Masover [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Vladimir V. Saveliev wrote: I could be entirely wrong, though. I speak for neither Hans/Namesys/reiserfs nor LKML. Talk amongst yourselves... i should clarify things a bit here. yes, hans' goal is for there to be no