Re: reiser4 for 2.6.27-rc1

From: Alan Cox
Date: Wed Aug 13 2008 - 09:48:51 EST


> > Regardless of the murder conviction, I still believe that the guy
> > should get credit for his work.
>
> Other filesystems are usually not named after people, e.g. ext2 is not
> named cardfs2 and jffs2 is not named woodhousefs.

Up to the author really isn't it. And dwmw2fs would be hard to pronounce.

> > Does it really hurt to keep his name there? I think it should just go as-is.
>
> You can agree or disagree with Tim, but it's not a trollish suggestion.

Not however a sensible one - Hans Reiser is the architect of reiser4
regardless of what else he may be. Changing a label doesn't change that
fact.

Alan
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