Re: [PATCH][2/2] SquashFS
From: Phillip Lougher
Date: Mon Mar 21 2005 - 14:43:36 EST
Pavel Machek wrote:
Well, out-of-tree maintainenance takes lot of time, too, so by keeping
limited code out-of-kernel we provide quite good incentive to make
those limits go away.
Sorry but I'm not calling Squashfs "limited" and I don't think it is.
If you wanted to nit-pick many of the current filesystems in the kernel
have various "limitations".
Your comment about not wanting more than one compressed filesystem in
the kernel is groundless. There's lots of _uncompressed_ filesystems in
the kernel, why do we need them all? Let's just pick one and throw the
rest away? Hmmm? Anyway there's already three compressed filesystems
in the kernel, each doing various specialised tasks: jffs2, zisofs, and
cramfs. No objections were raised then, why now?
As for your comment about "proving good incentive to make those limits
go away", in many cases it's more likely to make people give up and walk
away from any further kernel work.
Perhaps squashfs is good enough improvement over cramfs... But I'd
like those 4Gb limits to go away.
So would I. But it is a totally groundless reason to refuse kernel
submission because of that, Squashfs users are quite happily using it
with such a "terrible" limitation. I'm asking for Squashfs to be put in
the kernel _now_ because users are asking me to do it _now_. If it
doesn't go in, then they'll want to know why the kernel clique has
become so unreceptive to new pieces of work which they consider a key
piece of their Linux 'experience', and for that matter so would I.
Phillip
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