Bug#269945: kernel-source-2.6.8: please add Reiser4 support

[Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 07:27:45PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 04:05:19PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 04, 2004 at 03:16:02PM +0200, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > > 
> > >   Reiser4 filesystem has finally been released. It would be nice to have
> > > the support built into the Debian's kernels. My patch package applies
> > > cleanly to both vanilla and debian source trees, so probably it is not
> > > a big problem to apply it to the official Debian's kernel sources too.
> > 
> > reiser4 is still severly broken.  We certainly won't add it before all
> > issues are sorted out and it's merged upstream.
> 
> i'm not aware of anything severely broken, it works pretty well. what
> are you referring to?

It's trivially oopsable because of the metas braindage, and it does
core modifications that have been rejected upstream.

> it could take some time before it is merged in the linus' tree and i'd
> like to start giving some support before that time. the more it is used
> the faster it will be stabilized.

So test it.  The Debian kernel tree isn't a playground for experimental
patches.