On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:49:20 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I guess I can keep making this point in various ways until someone > > actually notices it: > > > > This filesystem has only 20 users. > > At the moment. And that probably exceeds Amiga users, 386 users, some of > the serial port users, several network card users ... > > In the past we've merged drivers for network cards where only two > existed in the world. Linus has repeatedly stated he wants to see stuff > people are using getting in. None of that means that merging this filesystem is the best decision. > Good clean code that doesn't affect the core > is good reference material. The reference block filesystem is ext2 (used to be minixfs) - there is no need for another. > I think you are (unusually) the one out of step here ? I appear to be the only one who is looking at the whole picture. Merging a new filesystem has costs - I don't need to enumerate them. Do the benefits of OMFS exceed them? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
