On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Michael W Zappe wrote:
> I just read through the reiserfs source again. The only change
> that occurs to ANY core functionality is the read_inode2
> functionality.
> The memory pressure issues are non-issues to the people allready
> using ReiserFS.
You may want to ask the people who are writing ReiserFS
before saying something like that ;)
> So, in summa, we're changing the VM that affects EVERY subsytem
> in the kernel during the 2.4 release, and refuse to integrate a
> patch that gives people an optional subsystem. Sounds like a
> feature freeze to me! Smells like something else...
The problem with the current 2.4 VM is that it is even
worse than 2.2 VM, which we are already ashamed about.
Also, some of the (extra) features in the new VM are
needed in order to be able to run a journaling filesystem
*and* have a stable - under load - system at the same time.
regards,
Rik
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