Lexington Luthor wrote:
Bernd Schubert wrote:
An alternative might be a reiser4 fuse port. Has some advantages:
Please please no. The kernel people will use that as an argument for
keeping it out of the kernel.
They'll use anything as an argument for keeping it out of the kernel.
This one is particularly shallow, especially if we still have the kernel
version, because the performance difference will be significant.
If it isn't, maybe it is time for things like FUSE to take us in the
direction of microkernels...
I want reiser4 to be popular enough to
make my apps depend on it and not have the users complain about having
to use an obscure fs.
Well, an obscure program (FUSE) is probably a lot easier to convince
users of than an obscure filesystem (reiser4 in-kernel).
Besides, the only thing about reiser4 that interests me more than XFS or
reiserfs is the speed.
That's you. There are other reasons to like it.
But I agree with you in that I don't think it's worth the resources to
do a FUSE port, especially when there is (again) NO guarantee that
anything we do will get us in the kernel, so better to do things that
will either get us users anyway (like distro inclusion) or do things the
kernel people specifically ask for.
