Omkhar Arasaratnam posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:34:30 -0400:
> As a ppc64 arch and can officially state that reiser4fs is very unstable > under ppc64 as of the last time I checked, which was some where in the > 2.6.12rc cycle plus mm patch. Likewise for amd64, according to those that have tested. That, and the fact that it's not an option yet with 2.6.12-rc6 (which I'm running) and that Linus was certainly toning down changes by rc5 time, made me really surprised that someone could believe it was in .12 at all. FWIW, the Corbet mentioned in the thread-linked article is the lead editor for LWN (Linux Weekly News), at lwn.net. I'd think it would have covered reiser4, just as it has covered other major kernel developments, if it was heading for mainline any time in the immediate future. The article created the wrong impression saying that was targeted at .12. Corbet never said that, only that it was to go into mainline "eventually". To its credit, that's what the article said, altho it had mentioned 2.6.12 earlier so one could get the wrong impression. I have no reason to believe reiser4 will be added in the next couple releases, either, so 2.6.15 or later I'd guess, tho I have no exclusive info on it to cause me to think that. Anyway, if you are interested in kernel development, I'd suggest watching LWN. It has been very helpful, here. I'm a subscriber (available from US$2.50/mo), but most daily content (including the kernel announcements) is available immediately to all, and the weekly (including the very informative here weekly kernel page) is available one-week delayed, for those unwilling or unable to do the subscription thing. All that said, I'm not sure why this thread is on gentoo-dev. It's really not gentoo-dev related. gentoo-user would have been more appropriate, IMO. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman in http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
