Re: 2.6.9-mm1

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 15:10:39 EST


Hans Reiser wrote:

I would like to encourage its inclusion as an experimental filesystem BEFORE vendors ship it. I think first putting experimental stuff in the kernels used by hackers makes sense. I think it creates more of a community.

I think -mm *is* what is run by hackers. That said, do you really think that it is stable with 4k stack? (that's a real question, it wasn't for me in 2.6.8-mm? when I briefly tried it).

I see the major benefits to people running heavy i/o load, like database and servers. And those are the users with the most to lose if it still has residual learning experiences.

I do think that akpm is capable of deciding when it should go in without all this politicing, and I doubt he or Linus care if it makes a vendor kernel first, considering all the things in vendor kernels which NEVER get to mainline.

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-bill davidsen (davidsen@xxxxxxx)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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