>
> there is a different sentiment here in Oakland and downtown Silicon
> Valley about this. in the an SVLUG gathering that i've been to last
> month where Linus and our very own Hans Reiser were present, Linus
> admitted that there is very little chances of RSF hitting the mainline
> kernel soon. that the technical differences related to that common
> layer aspect of RSF is rather immaterial for 2.4 release.
That may be true for 2.4, maybe in 2.[56] it will be more feasible to put
reiser in the mainline kernel. But the point is, nowadays, who cares?
Different distributors today have their own version of the kernel,
sometimes very heavily patched (i can attest to this of the Mandrake
kernel). Stuff like reiser, lvs, lm_sensors, devfs are all included
despite being not included in the mainline kernel. As long as your distro
supports the kernel, (or you can bitch loudly about it in a mailinglist),
the i think you are ok.
Its true that if less people use a particular "flavor" of the kernel, it's
less tested, but nowadays, the point is if it works with your hardware for
your purposes. That's the bottom line.
>
> >The probable reason why Alan favors ext3 over reiser is that ext3
> builds over >the existing structure of ext2, and people can revert
> back to ext2 if things fail.
I've not known Alan to be bogged down and pressured by political or market
forces, his is the mind and soul of a hacker, which i believe deep down,
really does not care about these political stuff. I've seen him drop a
hint or two in mailinglists that he will be the first to go if given such
directives from "up above".
> it was x86. but check out what we've done in our S/390 port where
> hans has miniatured RSF code for this mainframe architecture.
I think work has to be done here. There's a big market of alphas,
powepcs, mips and sparcs out there that would benefit from a port.
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