David Masover <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hans Reiser wrote: > > Horst von Brand wrote: > >>Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Stefan Smietanowski wrote:
[...] > > Better to spend one's mind looking for bugs instead of this issue..... > > .....if bugs were seen as such a big deal. > I think it's far easier to get into the kernel with something > ludicrously buggy than something which actually changes fundamental > behavior. Wonder why.... [Fixing bugs in the $FOO driver or the $BAR filesystem is /easy/, fixing bugs in "fundamental behaviour changes" is /extremely hard/.] > That is, you can put in an FS which actually corrupts data > (such as the old NTFS write support), so long as it doesn't break POSIX, > or cause other weird restrictions like "No files named 'metas'" Because that kind of problems are isolated. If you introduce a change that affects /all/ filesystems, and that change later on has unfixable bugs, or fundamental design issues, it is /a lot/ of work. > Now, if we can decide that we don't care about being in the vanilla > kernel, then we can just call it ".metas" or "lost+found" or whatever > and get to work on bug fixes and other much-needed features such as a > repacker. Great! -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 797513 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
