Christoph Hellwig wrote:
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 09:16:39AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
I think the exceed them quite easily. The costs are almost nil, while
merging this provides another nice example fs (and one much easier to
follow than ext*) for hardware that does have a few users and will no
doubt get many more
I wasn't aware Linus had introduced a new rule required 500 people sign
up to use a feature before it gets added ?
I'm also very surprised by this, especially as it seems to be applied
very selectively. This filesystems is an almost 0 maintainance burden
unlike a lot of really crappy driver we're shoving in constantly.
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Agreed. And adding to the pile-on, I think that we should be
_encouraging_ rather than discouraging innovative new filesystems.
I rather dislike limiting filesystem maintenance to the "old guard".
See comments like those on Evgeniy's blog:
http://tservice.net.ru/~s0mbre/blog/devel/fs/2008_04_14.html
Sure we do not need to merge every filesystem under the sun, or things
that much better belong in userspace (sshfs), but AFAICS there is not a
huge increase in maintenance cost to add a new kernel filesystem.
Jeff
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