On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 17:32 +0200, Pysiak Satriani wrote: > Hello, > > one of the concerns of LKML folks about r4 is that namesys after > finishing their work with r4 will "rush off" to reiser5 leaving > r4 as "stable" in a "bugfix-mode only" > > I understand that way of things - you don't mess with a "stable" branch > software. > > But a question arises. Will namesys keep r4 in a bugfix-only mode > (as with reiserfs v3) or will it have resources planned not only > for bugfixes but for updates too ? > > I think that's a thing that needs to be very clear. >
I don't understand the concerns here? Kernel v2.4 is essentially in "bug-fix only" mode right now, yet I don't see many people complaining that the kernel developers have abandoned it. I personally think its crazy to expect major features be back ported to old versions. For as long as I've been alive programmers have released a major version of their software, and only maintained it with minor version bug fixes while they work on the next major version to introduce features to it. Hans himself has pretty much followed that same path with ReiserFS V3, and now V4. There just happened to be a several year gap in between. I don't know what Hans has in mind in regards to ReiserV5, but ReiserV4 was designed with plugins in mind so adding additional features (even advanced ones) to it should be much easier than most other file systems. Just like many other applications that support plugins/extensions/addons ( like Firefox, Thunderbird, Azureus ) I would be incredibly surprised if Reiser4 doesn't spawn a large community of people completely independent of Namesys that create plugins from the useless, to the amazingly useful for years to come. -- Mike Benoit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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