On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 03:41:36AM +0000, James wrote: > That's the whole rub (in essence) as to why reiser4fs will never make it into > the kernel. Lots of kernel folks *do not trust Hans Reiser*....... > > His abusive shenanigans are an issue, but, not really why reiser4fs is doomed.
As I understand it, the main arguments against reiser4 are that it duplicates a ton of code in the VFS (Virtual File System) which underpins all other file systems (ext2/3/4, xfs, jfs, etc) and most developers think the reiser4 parts ought to be in the VFS, or at least not fighting it. Hans doesn't believe that, or professes to believe that is merely stalling tactics, and would rather throw hissy fits than actually discuss it reasonably. But I don't write kernel code, so this is only what I recall from lwn.net reports. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list