Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:51:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:51:13 -0400 Received: from thebsh.namesys.com ([212.16.7.65]:48399 "HELO thebsh.namesys.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Tue, 10 Sep 2002 15:51:12 -0400 Message-ID: <3D7E4E4A.4000404@namesys.com> Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:55:54 +0400 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Jones CC: marcelo@conectiva.com.br, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, green@namesys.com Subject: Re: [BK] ReiserFS changesets for 2.4 (performs writes more than 4k at a time) References: <3D7DF05E.7030903@namesys.com> <20020910160659.A15158@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1535 Lines: 38 Dave Jones wrote: >On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 05:15:10PM +0400, Hans Reiser wrote: > > > It passes all of our testing, but it is the kind of code that is more > > likely than most to have elusive lurking bugs. It cannot be tested in > > 2.5 first because 2.5 is too broken at this particular moment. > >What in particular holds you back from testing this in 2.5 ? > Oleg answered this. >This seems quite dubious for inclusion first in what it supposed >to be the stable series. > > Dave > > > It is a performance tweak, not a new feature. 2.5 is for things like reiser4. Also, remember that we do perform internal testing, and we also tested this on our mailing list, which makes our tweaks much more stable than most of the tweaks that go into 2.5 first. It is strange, but Namesys seems to have much more of a release management infrastructure than most code submitters (I think that means merely that we have one;-), since there are two persons that test every patch, and that makes us oddly unusual). However, waiting for 2.4.21pre1 is also quite reasonable since the number of lines of new code is significant, and reiserfs is used on mission critical servers. A lot depends on just how soon 2.4.20 is planned to come out, and only Marcelo knows that. Hans - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/