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 :-) Ciao, Michael. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+help@opensuse.org