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Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 15:52:49 -0400
From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.6.9-mm1
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Hans Reiser wrote:

> I would like to encourage its inclusion as an experimental filesystem 
> BEFORE vendors ship it. I think first putting experimental stuff in the 
> kernels used by hackers makes sense. I think it creates more of a 
> community.

I think -mm *is* what is run by hackers. That said, do you really think 
that it is stable with 4k stack? (that's a real question, it wasn't for 
me in 2.6.8-mm? when I briefly tried it).

I see the major benefits to people running heavy i/o load, like database 
and servers. And those are the users with the most to lose if it still 
has residual learning experiences.

I do think that akpm is capable of deciding when it should go in without 
all this politicing, and I doubt he or Linus care if it makes a vendor 
kernel first, considering all the things in vendor kernels which NEVER 
get to mainline.

-- 
    -bill davidsen (davidsen@tmr.com)
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
  last possible moment - but no longer"  -me
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