On Saturday 19 May 2007 23:40:22 Jaroslaw Swierczynski wrote:
> Althought reiser4 still has not accepted by Linus, it seems it's
> fairly stable and very popular. I've just had a look at the reiser4
> patch [1] and it seems it does not modify the kernel in a way which
> could disrupt its normal opration. Mostly it's symbols exporting, only
> the code fs/fs-writeback.c is actually modified but in my view those
> changes does not affect the original behaviour of the kernel.

As far as I know, one of the reasons Reiser4 wasn't accepted from the 
beginning was that it modifies structures of_the/expored_by the VFS kernel 
subsystem. This is needed to provide access to the features Reiser4 brings 
new.

I repeat "AFAIK", this is not a minor intrusion, as it affects the structure 
of a kernel subsystem, namely the VFS.

Regards,
Mircea

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http://mircea.bardac.net

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