On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> So did he say that he was only saying good things about ext3 "not to
> step on toes"? Or did you ask him why he made the comments he did
> about ext3 and he said just to "not step on any toes"?
>
> Or is it neither of those and you are just putting words in his mouth?
No, I didn't quote that, but it's the impression I got, and frankly you
can't comment either way until you at least read the article. It was on
OSNews.com, but I can't get to it right now or I'd paste the section I was
referring to. He just went out of his way to say that although he didn't
mention anything specifically good about ext3 that it still had some great
developers working on it. As you can see, it's not a negative comment.
> Huh? So now you are speaking not only for "the creator of ReiserFS"
> but also for the whole Mandrake Linux user base as well as all of the
> Mandrake employees?
No, I am speaking again of a published article outlining RedHat's move to
ext3fs. And again, unless you have read this article what are you
commenting on?
> How about maybe they are including ext3 not because of politics but
> because some of us actually want to use it?
That is fine. When did I ever say it should not be included, in fact you
can go back and look and see that I commended MandrakeSoft for providing
the most choices of journaling filesystems *of any vendor*, and that
includes the ext3 journaling fs along with that.
> So everyone's number one motivation for using a given filesystem is
> performance? Glad you can speak for all of us so well.
Since when? I did use the pronoun *I* didn't *I*? Speed is important to
me. If you like to run a slow filesystem, or at least prefer something
other than speed, knock yourself out. How am I going to stop you even if I
wanted to (and I don't, btw)?
I was giving my impression, which, yes, was based on published articles,
which is a good thing, as it shows I'm not just making this up, and no,
you seem to imply it was ZDNet or something when it comes straight from
the horse's mouth. But again, remember, it was my opinion. Other people
did not say it, I did, and I also cannot make you believe something you
don't want to, so there's no need tp get all worked up.
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Sincerely,
David Walluck
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