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Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 11:25:29 -0700
From: Bryan Whitehead <driver@jpl.nasa.gov>
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Hans Reiser wrote:
> Nick LeRoy wrote:
> 
>>  
>>
>>
>> Think about this:  Namesys is working on Reiserfs v4.0.  v4.0.  Hell - 
>> it's only been incorporated into the mainstream kernel for less than a 
>> year (at least by my recollection), yet it keeps advancing.  I have 
>> _no_ idea what UFS version Solaris 8 is using (admittedly at least 
>> somewhat due to ignorance -- I use Solaris because I have a good ol' 
>> SPARCprinter which alas is not supported by Linux), or whether they've 
>> bother to do development on it to make it better, faster, etc.  Yet, 
>> _we_ get this advancement all the time.  Isn't it great?!
>>
>>  
>>
> I think you'll really like v4, it is a complete rewrite from scratch, 
> and far better in every way.  :)
> 
> Hans

What blows my mind (from someone that only watches kernel development) 
is how one project, XFS, a filesystem basically "done" is excluded from 
the mainline kernel while ReiserFS is getting a "complete rewrite from 
scratch".

Maybe I don't get it cause I'm just watching... ;)

-- 
Bryan Whitehead
SysAdmin - JPL - Interferometry Systems and Technology
Phone: 818 354 2903
driver@jpl.nasa.gov

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