Re: Reiser4 Maintainer

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J. Todd Slack wrote:
> Hi,
>
>>> I have attempted to contact Edward Shishkin, but no response.
>>
>> Yeah, sometimes I can not reply immediately..
>
> OK, I was just thinking that you did not exist anymore. No worries.
>
>>> Would anyone have thoughts?
>>
>> Ok, let's start with #14
>> Since google dropped the cache, pull it as the first item of this list:
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/8/3/38 (about set_page_dirty_internal).
>>
>> Also there is a small, but nasty leak of free disk space when process
>> runs in
>> no-space-left-on-device mode. It can be reproduced by the following way:
>>
>> 1) format a small partition by mkfs.reiser4 with no options;
>> 2) mount it and look at "df" output;
>> 3) run stress.sh -n 20; let it to work some time with complaints about
>> no space left on device;
>> 4) terminate stress benchmark and remove everything on the partition;
>> 5) sync and look at "df" output: it can show more used space, then it
>> was reported at (2).
>>
>> It would be great to fix this leak.
>> There is a hint: this leak is related to tail conversion (if you format
>> a partition with "extents only" policy, then it doesn't take place).
>
> So who is the maintainer at this point?

I am.

> Is there a vacancy? 

There is a number of problems to resolve.
Most likely that nobody will touch the listed one in the near future.

Thanks,
Edward.
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