> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 09:24:58AM -0400, Michael Krufky wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 9:18 AM, Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, Aug 13, 2008 at 02:58:08PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon 2008-08-04 14:26:21, Tim Tassonis wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> Why is reiser4 still not in a vanilla kernel for
>>>>>> testing. I have had
>>>>>> to apply the reiser4 patches from -mm kernels to
>>>>>> vanilla based
>>>>>> patchset for over a year now. Reiser4 works fine, what
>>>>>> will it take to
>>>>>> get it included in vanilla? Here is a patch to add
>>>>>> reiser4 to
>>>>>> 2.6.27-rc1:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
http://zen-sources.org/files/reiser4-for-2.6.27-rc1.patch
>>>>>>
>>>>>> -Ryan
>>>>>>
>>>>> A good thing for a start would be to rename the whole
>>>>> thing to something else, for obvious reasons.
>>>>>
>>>> Whats wrong with reiser4 name?
>>>>
>>>> Pavel
>>>> (or am I feeding a troll?)
>>>>
>>> Not wanting a new filesystem named after a convicted murderer is not
>>> a trollish suggestion.
>>>
>> Regardless of the murder conviction, I still believe that the guy
>> should get credit for his work.
>>
>
> Other filesystems are usually not named after people, e.g. ext2 is not
> named cardfs2 and jffs2 is not named woodhousefs.
>
>
>> Reiserfs is a name that we all know of, regardless of how current we
>> are with the news (although you'd have to be PRETTY far behind if you
>> don't know about the crime)
>>
>> The current reiserfs filesystems aren't being renamed -- are they??
>>
>> Does it really hurt to keep his name there? I think it should just go as-is.
>>
>
> You can agree or disagree with Tim, but it's not a trollish suggestion.
