Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752300Ab2HSNpd (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2012 09:45:33 -0400 Received: from mail.nonattached.net ([193.160.39.60]:55218 "EHLO mail.nonattached.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751006Ab2HSNpa (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Aug 2012 09:45:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: Introducing Lanyard Filesystem From: Dan Luedtke To: Marco Stornelli Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, lanyfs@librelist.com In-Reply-To: <5030E95C.1030908@gmail.com> References: <1345333117-2826-1-git-send-email-mail@danrl.de> <1345371135.4441.2.camel@tunafish> <5030BC7E.3030000@gmail.com> <1345383264.4441.56.camel@tunafish> <5030E95C.1030908@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:45:15 +0200 Message-ID: <1345391115.2716.44.camel@tunafish> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1047 Lines: 25 On Sun, 2012-08-19 at 15:25 +0200, Marco Stornelli wrote: > Ok, I try to do a summary. You are trying to write a new general and > minimal fs for mobile storage device, minimal enough to be easy ported > on several fs. So at the end you are trying to replace the solution is > used today on many platforms (fat32). Without other consideration about > "no-feature is a feature", it seems to me really challenging because the > project can fail its goal no because there is design problem, bugs and > so on but because of limited use. We are talking about interoperability > problem, and we really know some companies out there from this point of > view :) You nailed it and you made me feel like Don Quijote. I'd like to give it a try anyway. regards, Dan -- Dan Luedtke http://www.danrl.de -- 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/