On Tue 2008-02-05 17:48:24, Jeff Mahoney wrote:
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Michael Matz wrote:
Hi,
On Tue, 5 Feb 2008, Jeff Mahoney 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.
I see. Well, as Greg has a point about the 7 years it probably makes sense to make the code suck as little as possible. I don't know upstreams "community" of reiser3, but perhaps they also would appreciate a little nicer code :-)
It works out that "Upstream" is still the old Namesys guys, but I end up doing most of the work. When I do come up with something, they don't really comment on it. I might as well just merge these against -mm and let them stew for a revision before pushing them out to mainline. I'm
That sounds like a way to go. You can also make yourself maintainer of reiser... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org