Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: (reiserfs) Re: patch: reiserfs for 2.3.49 | From | Matthias Andree <> | Date | 13 Mar 2000 13:39:04 +0100 |
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Xuan Baldauf <technik--reiserfs@exmail.de> writes:
> The code duplication in fs/reiserfs/ is a bug. But does this bug harm anything > but maybe somewhat performance? If it does not harm, there is no reason for > reiserfs not to make in pre-2.4 kernels, because those bugs can be fixed.
Code duplication is a matter of stability. Fix one place, but don't fix the other and you're heading for trouble, since you start to forget. Besides, code duplication is unnecessary code bloat and evil as such, in a kernel in particular.
This is nothing about ReiserFS in particular, just a general thought.
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