On Thu, 15 Jun 2000, Helge Hafting wrote:
> >NTFS write support has been in development kernels long
> >enough to have earned it a place in the stable kernels as well: Reiser's
> >code has not.
>
> This argument looks bad to me - let the code spend some time
> in a dev kernel, and then it is ready wheter it works or not?
That's not quite what I had in mind... What I meant was, do not put
development code into a stable kernel series.
> Writeable NTFS is known broken, but it is still there with a
> "dangerous" label.
Writable NTFS falls into a VERY different category than ReiserFS. NTFS is
not in any way a new system. Noone is going to go trying to install Linux
with an NTFS partition for root (I hope) - it's just there for accessing
legacy NT partitions.
> The latest reiserfs isn't tested that much, but at least there are
> people using it in production systems. I haven't heard about anybody
> using writeable NTFS for production. Seems to me that including
> reiserfs is possible, put it under "experimental" or even "dangerous"
> and remove the label once there's enough testing.
As I've said before, it should now be too late to put it in 2.4.0. Once
2.4.0 is done, it should start heading towards something like 2.4.2
(Chris's suggestion). Preferably via 2.5.0, depending on the timescale of
that.
James.
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