Re: on changing filesystems

[Erik Walthinsen <omega@omegacs.net>]

> Having a crash-proof filesystem would be nice. But where does it belong
> in your priorities?
Not very high.  I wouldn't consider adding such a feature until post-1.0, 
though I'd like to find someone who can spend 0.1% of their SEUL time 
keeping track of the existing projects.  Just an email or browse every 
once in a while would do it.

> e2fs is pretty good, and the only problem will be
> training the user to not just shut off the power when he is done with
> the computer. Windows 95 handled this issue, so can we.
Yup.  I agree.  It is far easier to educate the user than to work around 
broken behavior (er, yeah).  I was using the log-structured filesystem as 
an example, and in the wrong context at that.  I would only consider adding 
that for data-integrity reasons, which IMO is enough, but not enough to put 
it very high on our priorities list.

> I suspect the user cares much more about whether he has a good word
> processor and how easy it is to balance his checkbook. 
Initially, yes.  Eventually, once users are accustomed to the enormous 
benefits of Linux, they're gonna start asking for new features, so we'll 
have one ready to go, planned out, and someone keeping up on it.

Yet another thing that could be added to the developer database someone's 
putting together (paul?) would be a list of aux projects that that person 
is tracking.

     Erik Walthinsen <omega@seul.org> - SEUL Project system architect
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