Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:00:23 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Cc: marc@perkel.com, arjan@infradead.org, mail@earthworm.de,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: So - What's going on with Reiser 4?
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Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com> wrote:
>
> Arjan was just telling
>  you that it's not up to the kernel developers when reiser4 gets in
>

Well it is a bit.  Current status is that we just don't have anyone who's
sufficiently familar with VFS internals and idioms who has the
time+inclination to sit down and work with the reiserfs developers to get
the thing into a generally-acceptable state.  Progress has been made over
the past 12-28 months, but there's more to do.  It's a huge piece of code
and a lot of work to do this.

I said I'd do this a couple of months ago but of course haven't had time to
scratch myself.

The second hurdle will be Linus's somewhat-hard-to-define rule of thumb for
such merges: we'll only add such a large burden to the tree if there's
vendor pull for it.  Last time I asked around the vendors the response was
fairly tepid, although that was a year ago.

So reiser4 is somewhat in a state of limbo at present.  We need to
generally up the tempo and firm up some plans rather than letting things
drift like this, but I don't see a way in which we can do that.
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