Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
>
> ReiserFS developers:
>
> What is the status of the reiserfs-raw branch? Is it still being
> maintained, or has it been completely postponed awaiting finding
> space/resources/time for a more generic filesystem interface mechanism
> for such applications?
>
> The last known release of reiserfs-raw is 2.4.0-test10-reiserfs-raw, but
> this patch contains many things not actually part of the reiserfs-raw
> changes (i.e. the whole of reiserfs, AIO, hotswap capabilities, and from
> what it seems a bunch of more or less unrelated patches), with no
> references to which versions these are based on, making it increasingly
> hard to maintain such a kernel.
>
> It would be a shame to let all this work go down the drain I think.
>
> --
> Henrik Nordstrom
> Squid Developer
The sponsor for it flaked, and we are focusing on our darpa and hp and
applianceware contracts.
I agree that it is a shame to let it go to waste, but better to leave behind a
sponsor who can't understand that deep work normally takes 9 months at least.
Version 4 will be exciting.
Hans
