Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932089AbVIUBNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:13:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932093AbVIUBNO (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:13:14 -0400 Received: from mailhub.lss.emc.com ([168.159.2.31]:52315 "EHLO mailhub.lss.emc.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932089AbVIUBNN (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:13:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4330B388.8010307@emc.com> Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2005 21:12:40 -0400 From: Ric Wheeler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Reiser CC: vitaly@thebsh.namesys.com, "Theodore Ts'o" , Pavel Machek , Horst von Brand , thenewme91@gmail.com, Christoph Hellwig , Denis Vlasenko , chriswhite@gentoo.org, LKML , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel References: <200509182004.j8IK4JNx012764@inti.inf.utfsm.cl> <432E5024.20709@namesys.com> <20050920075133.GB4074@elf.ucw.cz> <20050921000425.GF6179@thunk.org> <4330A8F2.7010903@emc.com> <4330ACE2.8000909@namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <4330ACE2.8000909@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 4.7.1.128075, Antispam-Engine: 2.1.0.0, Antispam-Data: 2005.9.20.33 X-PerlMx-Spam: Gauge=, SPAM=7%, Reasons='EMC_FROM_00+ 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __SANE_MSGID 0, __USER_AGENT 0' Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 29 Hans Reiser wrote: > Ric Wheeler wrote: > > >>As an earlier thread on lkml showed this summer, we still have a long >>way to go to getting consistent error semantics in face of media >>failures between the various file systems. I am not sure that we even >>have consensus on what that default behavior should be between >>developers, so image how difficult life is for application writers who >>want to try to ride through or write automated "HA" recovery scripts >>for systems with large numbers of occasionally flaky IO devices ;-) > > > If you'd like to form a committee to standardize these things, I will > ask Vitaly to work with you on that committee, and to have ReiserFS3+4 > conform to the standards that result. > > Hans I am not a big fan of formal committees, but would be happy to take part in any effort to standardize, code and test the result... ric - 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/