Hello David, Monday, July 31, 2006, 11:46:34 PM, you wrote: > You must be new here... ;-)
I wanted to point out that because: > Options B and C are all that ever seems to happen when reiserfs-list and > lkml collide. and: > The speed of a nonworking program is irrelevant. > The cost-effectiveness of an impossible solution is irrelevant. maybe the more important thing is to allow people use r4 on their own (rpms, debs, apt/gentoo/repositories, etc.) better, than to push that hard for kernel inclusion. Currently the r4 patch is very easy to apply, you can apply it on top of heavily patched kernels with no or little fuzz, which is very good. But, as Hans wrote earlier, not every user knows how to patch, but in ubuntu for example it is fairly easy (and encouraged by the official forums/wikis) for those users to add additional repositories using synaptic or adept or editing /etc/apt/sources.list. I mean, there were huge objections against FUSE too, remember? But Miklos built a steady and growing userbase. Maybe that is something to realize, Hans, we don't need kernel inclusion to have a growing userbase. (or atleast a steady one) A side note: the only time we had not reiserfs-list and lkml collide (that much) was when Andrew Morton was commenting and when Cristoph made a list of "things to phix" - that cost people some nerve but it nevertheles was more productive than the usual flamewars. -- Best regards, Maciej
