On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:30:59 +0200 Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-04-13 at 16:10 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > 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? > > Eh you, corporate linux developer, please don't discriminate what's > going in the kernel just because of extra cost. By "cost" I refer to extra developer time spent on maintaining the filesystem. The most recent example is the write_begin/write_end changes which took a lot of Nick's time and rather a lot of mine also. I get to see these costs. I seek to minimise them. > Let linux continue to be > "by the people, for the people" if you see what I mean. "the people" here are those who work on the kernel. We want our time to be spent as effectively as possible. Sorry if that sounds corporate. -- 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
