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On Mon, 5 Jun 2000, Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
> On 2000-06-05T09:53:12,
> Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> said:
>
> > I don't think that's enough. When a user wants to try out
> > 2.5 one evening, it should be possible to reboot back into
> > 2.4 without having to reformat the disk.
> >
> > Reiserfs needs both forward and backward compatability as a
> > default.
>
> Linux development kernels have so much rope for a stupid user to hang
> themselves with that I frankly don't care when they try to do that without
> reading the documentation.
>
> I disagree to keep a needed an useful feature out of 2.4 for the sake that
> users may shot themselves in the feet when upgrading to the next development
> series.
I on the other hand don't see the problem, since a decent coder can use
patch/diff so applying the reiserfs patches isn't hard to do...
Please give some good reasons why applying reiserfs in 2.4.* would be a
good idea. And I don't mean that sarcasticly I mean it out of curiousity.
Regards
Richard Torkar
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