Re: reiser4: newbie help needed?

[Edward Shishkin]

Johannes Buchner wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am possibly interested in helping out. Who is currently working on
> reiser4?

Nobody.
Because there is no bugreports.

>  I took a look at the TODO lists, are there any simple tasks to
> do for newbies?
>   

If you mean the "todo for inclusion", then no.

Reiser4 has only one technical issue. It can
be resolved only by very experienced people.

> Also, where is the latest code development going on?
>   

in -mm

> I also believe that on 'sync', reiser4 currently does absolutely
> nothing.

this is not good: a file system should respond on sync (1).

>  The comment in reiser4_sync_inodes says reiser4 does its own
> flush elsewhere. Should this be different?
>   

you might want to ask such question _before_ sending patches to akpm. 

BTW excellent comment, what is not clear?

/**
* reiser4_sync_inodes - sync_inodes of super operations
* @super:
* @wbc:
*
* This method is called by background and non-backgound writeback. 
Reiser4's
* implementation uses generic_sync_sb_inodes to call reiser4_writepages for
* each of dirty inodes. Reiser4_writepages handles pages dirtied via shared
* mapping - dirty pages get into atoms. Writeout is called to flush some
* atoms.
*/

Edward.
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