Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

[Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > of the story for me. There's nothing wrong about focusing on newer code,
> > > but the old code needs to be cared for, too, to fix remaining issues
> > > such as the "can only have N files with the same hash value". 
> > Requires a disk format change, in a filesystem without plugins, to fix it.
>
> Well, too bad, if reiser3 is so broken it needs on-disk-format-change,
> then I guess doing that change is the right thing to do...

Actually, there is reiser4 brokenness lurking in Hans' statement, too:

A filesystem WITH plugins must still handle the standard Linux 
compatibility stuff that other filesystems handle.

Plugins --do not-- mean that you can just change the filesystem format 
willy-nilly, with zero impact.

	Jeff



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