Steve Lord wrote:
> Hans Reiser started a campaign to get into Linus's kernel several months
> before 2.4 came out, and everyone screamed, not while we are in the
> final weeks of 2.3.xxx - which turned into months. Linus told me in July
> last year that it would go into 2.4.1, and it did. The fact that it had
> had several months air time in a major distribution (Suse) probably had
> a lot to do with it.
As an end-user, I think Steve makes some excellent points here. The
key is to get the distributors and OEMs on-board. That's the first
step.
So far, RedHat and VALinux have snubbed ReiserFS because of its lack
of a traditional inode structure that has issues with some services
(like NFS). They have shown support for Ext3. Unfortunately, Ext3
is not available on 2.4 yet. And, in the end, Tweedie has said that
he's not taking Ext3 any farther than being a journal atop of Ext2
because of projects like ReiserFS, XFS and JFS. As such, we
end-users should be pushing RedHat and VALinux to start looking at
XFS since it bypasses some of their concerns with ReiserFS.
I had a recent /. response on this (I usually boycott /., but the
mention of XFS on NewsForge caught my eye):
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=01/05/26/0743254&cid=86
> We have not yet asked distributors or Linus to take the code,
> but things are starting to happen, and we will probably be
> asking Linus soon.
I think the key is to not get "pushy." Hans' recent "jealousy"
comment is fresh in my mind, although he made some good points. The
developers know where the code is at and what Linus expects (there
is a very good reason to his madness ;-).
So, as end-users (which is what I'm assume some of us are on this
list), we should be taking this up with our distributors and OEMs.
RedHat ran a "beta" program for Ext3 and VALinux eventually released
a distro and products using Ext3. I would like to see this done
with XFS as well.
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