Congrats Hans. You’ve finally found an even more painful way to to work collaboratively and merge changes than the existing LKML workflow. Prison letter merge requests.
There seems to be a mistake about Mikhail Gilula (emphasis mine):
that he was shown much generosity just makes it more painful.
Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator that has shown much generosity.
Keeping the positives bits makes sense, but my understand of English tells me this one little change (has/was) is actually pretty significant: in one case people were generous to this guy, in the other the guy was generous himself. So either the committer has insider knowledge of what Hans Reiser really meant, or it would have been more prudent to just say “Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator.”
Unless of course I’m making a grammar mistake, or it’s obvious enough that Hans Reiser originally did.
I completely forgot about ReiserFS, I haven’t even heard about this stuff in years. But when you think of it - it makes sense, long term kernel support means just that, long term.
And when you think about it, ReiserFS is getting removed from the kernel sometime in 2025. Assuming we have some 10-year LTS distro with that kernel, that’s a long, long, long time for a piece of software to be supported, even after it was declared obsolete.
Edit to add: it’s long at least in terms of software development.
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There seems to be a mistake about Mikhail Gilula (emphasis mine):
Keeping the positives bits makes sense, but my understand of English tells me this one little change (has/was) is actually pretty significant: in one case people were generous to this guy, in the other the guy was generous himself. So either the committer has insider knowledge of what Hans Reiser really meant, or it would have been more prudent to just say “Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator.”
Unless of course I’m making a grammar mistake, or it’s obvious enough that Hans Reiser originally did.
You are correct
I completely forgot about ReiserFS, I haven’t even heard about this stuff in years. But when you think of it - it makes sense, long term kernel support means just that, long term.
And when you think about it, ReiserFS is getting removed from the kernel sometime in 2025. Assuming we have some 10-year LTS distro with that kernel, that’s a long, long, long time for a piece of software to be supported, even after it was declared obsolete.
Edit to add: it’s long at least in terms of software development.