KernelTrap: Filesystems, Politics and the Kernel

“The discussion about why the Reiser4 filesystem has not been
merged into the Linux kernel continues on the lkml. Hans Reiser
contrasted the struggles Reiser4 has had trying to get merged
versus recent discussion about the up and coming ext4 filesystem,
‘the code isn’t even written, benchmarked, or tested yet, and it is
going into the kernel already so that its developers don’t have to
deal with maintaining patches separate from the tree. Wow. Kind of
hard to argue that it is not politically differentiated, isn’t
it…?'”

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