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Obligatory ...Obligatory ...Posted Oct 2, 2007 5:39 UTC (Tue) by yodermk (subscriber, #3803)Parent article: Andrew Morton's 2.6.24 merge plans
> reiser4.patch
> Hold.
*Groan*
Can LWN (or someone) do a good article on the current state of affairs? Is there any hope for it? Is development still even happening?
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Obligatory ... Posted Oct 2, 2007 7:22 UTC (Tue) by engla (guest, #47454) [Link] Is it credible that it is anywhere near? Just seeing that as one patch named "reiser4" looks like it's just one big blob of changes needing help.
Wouldn't a new filesystem to be integrated need a long series of patches? (To be clean, easy to review etc).
Obligatory ... Posted Oct 2, 2007 7:24 UTC (Tue) by arnd (subscriber, #8866) [Link] My understanding is that the original authors are not actively working onthis any more and no new maintainer has stepped up to fix the remaining issues with the code base.
If someone takes responsibility for maintaining the code, it could go in,
Obligatory ... Posted Oct 2, 2007 16:17 UTC (Tue) by zooko (subscriber, #2589) [Link] Last I heard Andrew Morton said that the reiser4 hackers played well with others.
Let's see...
http://pub.namesys.com/Reiser4/ToDo
Uh-oh -- looks like it hasn't been updated in half a year.
Obligatory ... Posted Oct 2, 2007 18:24 UTC (Tue) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link] Edward Shishkin has been doing most of the Reiser4 work recently. However, I don't believe that any of the developers have access to the old Reiser email lists or web sites. That's one reason the email list moved to vger.kernel.org with the rest of the kernel lists.
Obligatory ... Posted Oct 3, 2007 11:53 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link] I think the mailing list was moved because the namesys servers were being flaky and unstable. The wiki is probably unused for the same reason.
At least the FTP server is still being updated with recent patch releases: ftp://ftp.namesys.com/pub/reiser4-for-2.6/2.6.23-rc1-mm1/
Obligatory ... Posted Oct 2, 2007 13:57 UTC (Tue) by i3839 (subscriber, #31386) [Link] The people who want Reiser4 to make it in should really lend some help achieving it. Because if the people wanting Reiser4 don't spend the effort to get there, who will?
It won't happen by itself from out of the blue you know.
Obligatory ... Posted Oct 3, 2007 12:33 UTC (Wed) by intgr (subscriber, #39733) [Link] If you want to stay up to date, just subscribe to reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org.
There has been very little development recently (as far as I can tell), but the code is still kept up to date with recent kernel releases, although with a slight lag; bugs and regressions are being fixed. This is mostly the work of Edward Shishkin, although Dave Hansen from IBM is apparently also helping.
But to get this into the kernel, the whole thing needs to be split into incremental patches which is probably going to be a significant amount of work considering how much the kernel has changed. However, the last KernelTrap article about reiser4 from April suggests that there were no major obstacles to merging reiser4 (http://kerneltrap.org/node/8102)
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