Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 18:32:41 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-cluster@redhat.com, wim.coekaerts@oracle.com,
       linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-cluster] Re: GFS, what's remaining
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Joel Becker <Joel.Becker@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 06:21:26PM -0400, Daniel Phillips wrote:
>  > that fit the configfs-nee-sysfs model?  If it does, the payoff will be about 
>  > 500 lines saved.
> 
>  	I'm still awaiting your merge of ext3 and reiserfs, because you
>  can save probably 500 lines having a filesystem that can create reiser
>  and ext3 files at the same time.

oy.   Daniel is asking a legitimate question.

If there's duplicated code in there then we should seek to either make the
code multi-purpose or place the common or reusable parts into a library
somewhere.

If neither approach is applicable or practical for *every single function*
then fine, please explain why.  AFAIR that has not been done.
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