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Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:09:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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Subject: Re: A modest proposal -- We need a patch penguin
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On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Alexander Viro wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2002, Daniel Phillips wrote:
> > Linus just called you the ext2 maintainer.
>
> Message-ID, please?

I called you the VFS maintainer ("whether you like it or not" I think I
said. Although I can't find the message right now).

Now, that obviously does imply a certain control over low-level
filesystems, but it really mainly implies a control over the _interfaces_
used to talk the the filesystem, not the filesystem itself.

I personally really wouldn't mind seeing most filesystem patches coming
through Al (and, in fact, in the inode trimming patches that is partly
what as been happening), but I have this nagging suspicion that some
filesystem maintainers would rather eat barbed wire (*).

		Linus

(*) The discussions between Gooch and Al are always "interesting", to name
some names.

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