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Reiser4 is coming

Posted Jul 31, 2003 5:05 UTC (Thu) by faramir (subscriber, #2327)
Parent article: Reiser4 is coming

I see no obvious reason why Reiser4 shouldn't be included in
the 2.6 kernel. Assumming (a big assumption) that it doesn't
require changes in the core code to the kernel, how is adding
Reiser4 any different then a device driver for a new network
card?

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Reiser4 is coming

Posted Jul 31, 2003 15:11 UTC (Thu) by remijnj (subscriber, #5838) [Link]

As is said in the article. It didn't get much (public) testing yet so it's not proven stable yet.

It _is_ fundamentally different from just including a driver. People could use this and lose their files. That is not acceptable in a stable kernel.

Just patch the kernel and test (with non-critical files). If it proves stable over time it will get included anyway. Especially if some distros include it first.

Reiser4 is coming

Posted Aug 7, 2003 19:16 UTC (Thu) by huaz (guest, #10168) [Link]

Why? NTFS write support had been in stable kernel for a long time and marked as DANGEROUS.