Re: WinFS beta out

[Marc Perkel]

Hans Reiser wrote: Jeff Mahoney wrote The current implementation is hardly what I had envisioned ACLs and xattrs being on reiserfs -- but was the only solution we could find to still allow the filesystem to be mounted on an earlier kernel. An ideal solution would have been to introduce reiserfs v3.7 with a new magic, and add feature versioning to the superblock, similar to the way ext[23] does it. I felt that would have been met with much, much more resistance than the implementation I ultimately presented. I understand that you meant well, and we just honestly disagree about when to code freeze a stable release and put all the new stuff in the next release. I would never release code that dramatically reduces performance to the point of eliciting the remarks in this thread by the users, and that too is an honest disagreement. I was offered money by more than one entity to do the design you did, and refused the money. All of what you wish you could have done differently is easily done in reiser4 because of plugins, and acls in reiser4 will happen when someone offers money (and they will, I am sure of it). I have to question the decision to freeze existing code when the new code isn't finished. For what it's worth I've switched to EXT3 because I want ACLs. I hope to come back to ReiserFS some day but right now it just doesn't have the features I need now. Abandoning Reiser 3 is going to end up losing you part of market share because EXT3 has made a lot of advances. I'm still a fan and looking forward to Reiser 4. Just not sure what I can do to help. I'll offer you free spam filterinf Hans if that hels a little. I have the best spam filter on the planet.