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What you all fail to acknowledge ...

What you all fail to acknowledge ...

Posted Sep 27, 2005 6:47 UTC (Tue) by zmi (guest, #4829)
In reply to: What you all fail to acknowledge ... by kirkengaard
Parent article: Reiser4 and kernel inclusion

> Experimental features belong in -mm until those two criteria are met.

If it's "just" this, then a delay is of course necessary. Only when
stability is more or less to be expected (don't dare to say
"guaranteed" ;-), an inclusion is appropriate.

> Hans Reiser does not want non-namesys-employed hands working in "his"
> codebase, and so protests efforts to change his work to conform to a)
> kernel code requirements, and b) user-desired features and bugfixes
> added in a completely kosher fashion (a la GPL).

Why can there be a discussion about this? If they don't support it,
somebody else should. He should fix it or shut up. Progress should be
done, in order have more features. Although I personally am happy with
reiser3, it just works and is stable. But it's becoming slow after some
time working with it, just like NTFS. Hopefully reiser4 with it's builtin
defragmentation can help there.

mfg zmi


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