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On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, David Luyer wrote:
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> Richard Torkar wrote:
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> > 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.
>
> You assume everyone who wants to use reiserfs is a "decent coder"?
No, I do not assume that. I assume that he can patch a kernel tree. If he
can't do that then I would say that he would be pretty lost when it comes
to dealing with formatting a HD.
Journaling fs might sound very cool (and it is :) but putting it in the
kernel means basically (even if it says EXPERIMENTAL) that new users who
compile their first kernels might try that and after a while *fsck* their
HD permanentally, which leads to ppl screaming that Linux sucks. And
nobody wants that.
**SNIPPED**
>
> Keeping it out of the mainstream kernel keeps it away from the mainstream
> users. People who know how to run a Linux system in general but have never
> actually had to compile anything (since Debian, RedHat, etc do such a good
> job of making things available in packages). What the distributions ship in
> their kernels is strongly influenced by what is in the base kernel.
Agreed. That is a *good* argument. :)
Regards
Richard Torkar
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