Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2006 13:56:17 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >>> of the story for me. There's nothing wrong about focusing on newer code, >>> but the old code needs to be cared for, too, to fix remaining issues >>> such as the "can only have N files with the same hash value". >>> >> Requires a disk format change, in a filesystem without plugins, to fix it. > > Well, too bad, if reiser3 is so broken it needs on-disk-format-change, > then I guess doing that change is the right thing to do...
Actually, there is reiser4 brokenness lurking in Hans' statement, too:
A filesystem WITH plugins must still handle the standard Linux compatibility stuff that other filesystems handle.
Plugins --do not-- mean that you can just change the filesystem format willy-nilly, with zero impact.
Jeff
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