Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750744AbVIUKRJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:17:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750798AbVIUKRJ (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:17:09 -0400 Received: from relay1.wplus.net ([195.131.52.143]:35901 "EHLO relay1.wplus.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750744AbVIUKRI (ORCPT ); Wed, 21 Sep 2005 06:17:08 -0400 From: Vitaly Fertman To: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:16:09 +0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.1 Cc: Ric Wheeler , 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 References: <200509182004.j8IK4JNx012764@inti.inf.utfsm.cl> <4330B388.8010307@emc.com> <4330CDF1.4050902@namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <4330CDF1.4050902@namesys.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509211416.10794.vitaly@namesys.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1793 Lines: 49 On Wednesday 21 September 2005 07:05, Hans Reiser wrote: > Ric Wheeler wrote: > > > 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... I would be happy to take part in it too. > > ric > > > > > > > The committee could simply exchange a set of emails, and agree on > things. I doubt it needs to get all complicated. I suggest you contact > all the folks you want to be consistent with each other, send us an > email asking us to all try to work together, and then ask for proposals > on what we should all conform to. Distill the proposals, and then > suggest a common solution. With luck, we will all just say yes.:) -- Thanks, Vitaly Fertman - 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/