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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Nikita Danilov wrote:

> Then you missed "reiserfs inclusion into the kernel" soap opera.
> 
> And besides, reiserfs in mainline to no extent means reiser4 in mainline
> (unfortunately).

No, that's probably a good thing. I don't care how good any programming
team might be, an implementation written from scratch probably should burn
in for a while before going in anywhere it might be used for production.

And with all respect to the group, a 4th rewite from scratch in only a few
years suggests that the ratio of coding to designing is pretty high.

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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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