Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:53:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:52:28 -0500 Received: from [195.39.17.254] ([195.39.17.254]:19972 "EHLO Elf.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Mar 2003 17:51:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2003 01:41:45 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Larry McVoy , Linus Torvalds , "Martin J. Bligh" , Roman Zippel , "Eric W. Biederman" , Zack Brown , Larry McVoy , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: BitBucket: GPL-ed KitBeeper clone Message-ID: <20030313004145.GG5958@zaurus.ucw.cz> References: <8200000.1047228943@[10.10.2.4]> <20030309182009.GA7435@work.bitmover.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030309182009.GA7435@work.bitmover.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1754 Lines: 43 Hi! > Going back to the engineering problems, those problems are not going to > get fixed by people working on them in their spare time, that's for sure, > it's just not fun enough nor are they important enough. Who wants to > spend a year working on a problem which only 10 people see in the world > each year? And commercial Well, if it happens only to 10 people per year, it is a non-problem. > I'm starting to think that the best thing I could do is encourage Pavel & > Co to work as hard as they can to solve these problems. Telling them that > it is too hard is just not believable, they are convinced I'm trying to > make them go away. The fastest way to make them go away is to get them > to start solving the problems. Let's see how well Pavel likes it when > people bitch at him that BitBucket doesn't handle problem XYZ and he If it only happens so rarely, people are unlikely to complain too loudly. Take a look at e2fsck. That's similar to bk -- awfull lot of corner cases. And guess what, if you mess up your disk badly enough, it will just tell you to fix it by hand (deallocate block free bitmap in full group). And its okay. (Plus I believe chkdsk has *way* bigger problems than that.) I'm sure you are not going to throw away ext2 just because it has 1-person-per-3-years problem. 99% solution is going to be good enough for me, Andrea and Martin. Linus can keep using bk. Pavel -- Pavel Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need... - 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/