after reading: http://kerneltrap.org/node/3727 and http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17037.html
i'm curious what the current (05/05/05!) situation has come to with reiser4 and linux 2.6.x. i would like to install gentoo gnu/linux on a sparc64 (sun blade 100) with reiser4 as the primary filesystem. i agree with Hans w/r/t VFS... though Free software, as a creative endeavor, consequently relies heavily on something like "memetic capitalization" or perhaps simply "marketing"... more than people would like to admit to themselves. maybe the need for Reiser4 from my own perspective should _seem_ obvious just from BeFS and WebObjects, let alone CoreData/Spotlight. without "memetic capitalization" (or apple uses plain old-fashioned capital), too many wonderful ideas look like Plan9, Squeak/Smalltalk, Xanadu, et. al. (i worry that even Freenet could have fallen into that list). this could even explain much of Free software's negative reputation for "fast follower" status, rather than "first mover". peace, -z
