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                                                          February 20, 2017

                                                           HANS_REISER
As I was saying:

    I've never gotten a good feel for why
    Reiser4 was never adopted into linux
    core: as I remember it, Linus Torvalds
    was complaining that Reiser wouldn't
    modify his code to comply with linux
    standards...

Actually, allow me to make a wild guess
based on very little (I am a man of many
theories):

    Torvalds has a rep for making contributions
    modular so that people with different ideas can
    compete with each other: there's a choice of
    file-systems you can use when you set-up a
    linux box.  You can experiment with them if you
    like, and see which one works best for you.

    Reiser had a grand vision
    of Reiser4 being more than
    just a file system, it was
    a place where any kind of          A critic might say:
    information could be placed        "So? Isn't that what
    in a unified name space.           a file system is?"
    What are the odds that that
    would play well with any           Or perhaps: isn't
    sort of standardized               that what URLs are?
    interface for file systems?
                                                         What I would say
         If that was really it, then                     is that it's often
         Reiser should've released two                   difficult to see
         versions of Reiser4, one a                      what's going on
         faster work-a-like of a                         with an idea without
         standard file system, and the                   playing with it
         other a variant unix distro                     to see how it works.
         with Reiser 4 baked-in with a
         wide-open communications
         channel. ("Reiser4 Unleashed"?).



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