Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 14 Apr 2008 01:44:45 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/7] OMFS filesystem version 3 |
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:30:59 +0200 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@free.fr> wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I appear to be the only one who is looking at the whole picture. > > > > Merging a new filesystem has costs - I don't need to enumerate them. Do > > the benefits of OMFS exceed them? > > Eh you, corporate linux developer, please don't discriminate what's > going in the kernel just because of extra cost.
By "cost" I refer to extra developer time spent on maintaining the filesystem. The most recent example is the write_begin/write_end changes which took a lot of Nick's time and rather a lot of mine also.
I get to see these costs. I seek to minimise them.
> Let linux continue to be > "by the people, for the people" if you see what I mean.
"the people" here are those who work on the kernel. We want our time to be spent as effectively as possible. Sorry if that sounds corporate.
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