Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262204AbVCUXZQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:25:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262181AbVCUWym (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:54:42 -0500 Received: from nijmegen.renzel.net ([195.243.213.130]:676 "EHLO mx1.renzel.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262128AbVCUWxc (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:53:32 -0500 X-Spam-Report: SA TESTS -1.7 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Message-ID: <423F5091.2030906@twisted-brains.org> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 23:54:09 +0100 From: Mws User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: Phillip Lougher , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS References: <20050314170653.1ed105eb.akpm@osdl.org> <20050314190140.5496221b.akpm@osdl.org> <423727BD.7080200@grupopie.com> <20050321101441.GA23456@elf.ucw.cz> <423EEEC2.9060102@lougher.demon.co.uk> <20050321190044.GD1390@elf.ucw.cz> <423F4B88.8020504@twisted-brains.org> <20050321224403.GP1390@elf.ucw.cz> In-Reply-To: <20050321224403.GP1390@elf.ucw.cz> 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: 1395 Lines: 50 Pavel Machek wrote: >Hi! > >[I'm not sure if I should further feed the trolls.] > > >>>Yes, it *is* rather unfair. Sorry about that. But having 2 different >>>limited compressed filesystems in kernel does not seem good to me. >>> >>> > > > >>what do you need e.g. reiserfs 4 for? or jfs? or xfs? does not ext2/3 >>the journalling job also? >>is there really a need for cifs and samba and ncpfs and nfs v3 and nfs >>v4? why? >> >> > >Take a look at debate that preceded xfs merge. And btw reiserfs4 is >*not* merged. > >And people merging xfs/reiserfs4/etc did address problems pointed out >in their code. > Pavel > > i do not know if i act like a troll - i think a troll is something totally different. yes of course i know xfs or e.g. the kernel version named debate. but - seriously - is it worth spending so many time to discuss instead of just fixing the code meanwhile? that is the main problem also in some other open source projects. discussing instead of developing - not really efficient. ps. FYI no, i am not a troll, and i am also taking part in some open source projects contributing code. regards marcel - 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/