Jonathan Briggs wrote:
>On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 23:14 -0800, Hans Reiser wrote: >[snip] > > >>They claim that if we don't use the ext3 code >>in our fs then they will be forced to shoulder an extra burden to >>maintain our code. We are not allowed to specify that they should not >>maintain our code at all. I need to read more Kafka I think, it is hard >>for me to understand it all. >> >> > >Err, this actually does make a lot of sense Hans. > >The mainline Linux Kernel code is maintained by everyone that can >convince Linus or a sub-maintainer to accept their patch. In order to > > I am the reiserfs/reiser4 sub-maintainer. So, if reiser4 works well, and is faster than any other Linux FS, and it is, maintaining it over time is for me to worry about, not them.