Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kernel (81 mails)

[Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@xxxxxxxx>]

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Michael Matz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Greg KH wrote:
>
> > > I also imagine that bringing up the reiser3 xattr code will be like a 
> > > third rail, but it is what it is.
> > Do we have people that rely on it in our kernels?  Do we want to drag it 
> > along for 7 more years?  :)
>
> I don't see us deprecating reiser3.  I don't know if the xattr patches are 
> necessary for xattrs to work on reiser at all, but I do know that we use 
> xattrs, so that too needs to continue to work.

I think I misunderstood Greg's question here.

ReiserFS extended attributes have been in mainline since, oh, 2.6.14 or
something. They're a fact. The patches are there to make the code not
suck so much.

- -Jeff

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Jeff Mahoney
SUSE Labs
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