> On Fri, Aug 01, 2008 at 09:49:55AM -0400, Ryan Hope 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
>
> The reasons laid out in these web pages haven't changed.
>
>
http://kernelnewbies.org/WhyReiser4IsNotIn
>
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/28/180
>
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/engine?do=post_view_flat;post=668645;page=1;sb=p...
>
> Now that Hans is out of the picture, and Namesys seems to have
> collapsed, maybe someone can yank out the plugin architecture that
> Linus and others have objected to, which as near as I could tell was
> part of the Namesys's somewhat dodgy business plan of creating and
> selling (possibly proprietary; not sure what license they were going
> to be under) plugin modules for Reiser4 to make money. The other
> issue that was raised during the review were some locking issues
> raised by Al Viro, if memory serves correctly. I'm not sure if they
> were ever fixed;
