On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> >
> > Can you run _all_ of the above at the same time on a a large machine
> > will gobs and ram and multiple processors? With the file
> > creation/deletion -- are you doing this to the same directories from
> > multiple threads at once?
>
> Now, now, don't be too harsh on the resierfs guys.
I was the one complaining about the tests Chris is referring to - but my
complaint wasn't that the ReiserFS guys had failed to nuke the code, or
were being less than thorough. Rather, I just pointed out these tests
didn't address the original complaint at all - they were the wrong tests
to begin with.
> Do we suddenly expect code to be bug-free before inclusion into the
> kernel?
I hope not - there wouldn't be much kernel left if that were strictly
applied :-)
> For rather obvious PR reasons I'd love to say "yes, we have a journalling
> filesystem these days" as part of the 2.4.x release stuff, so it does fall
> under the "drivers so cool that they might make it into 2.4.x". I don't
> think I want to see the read_inode() changes, though, that's just too
> ugly. I may like the PR angle of reiserfs, but that doesn't mean that I'd
> forget about things like these completely.
A journalling FS would definitely be a desirable feature. ISTR the VFS
update is being worked on now - with that done, the FS should be OK for
inclusion?
Personally, I want to see ReiserFS included as soon as possible - provided
it can be done cleanly.
> But it looks to me as if the read_inode thing plus a few cleanups in
> raiserfs to take into account that the VFS layer does more these days
> would certainly make it a candidate for inclusion. Maybe not 2.4.0, but
> during 2.4.x. Don't be so down on the guys, there are people who really
> like actively using raiserfs..
Any idea of relative timescale for 2.4.0 vs. fixing ReiserFS? ISTR someone
suggested a week or so for ReiserFS having the VFS layer fixed - is this
realistic, and could this make it into the kernel early enough for 2.4.0??
Sorry if I seemed a bit hostile to ReiserFS earlier in the week - quite
the opposite, I want to see it in - but not before it is ready.
James.
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