On Saturday 17 September 2005 12:22, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:39:48PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> > Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >
> > >additinoal comment is that the code is very messy, very different
> > >from normal kernel style, full of indirections and thus hard to read.
> > >
> >
> > Most of my customers remark that Namesys code is head and shoulders
> > above the rest of the kernel code. So yes, it is different. In
> > particular, they cite the XFS code as being so incredibly hard to read
> > that its unreadability is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars in
> > license fees for me. That's cash received, from persons who read it
> > all, not commentary made idly.
>
> It's very different from kernel style, and it's hard to read for us kernel
> developers. And yes, I don't think XFS is the most easy to read code either,
> quite contrary. But it's at least half a magnitude less bad than reiser4
> code..
At least reiser4 is smaller. IIRC xfs is older than reiser4 and had more time
to optimize code size, but:
reiser4 2557872 bytes
xfs 3306782 bytes
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