On Monday 28 May 2007 01:37:36 Fajar Priyanto wrote:
On Sunday 27 May 2007 23:13, Kai Ponte wrote:
that's probably a good thing. :P
I have one question to the group. When I wiped Vista and formatted my drive on the laptop, instead of Reiser - which was the default for 9.1-10.1 for me - it formatted my partitions as ext3.
Any reason for the switch? I have no compliants, just wondering.
I believe it's been heavily discussed in the last couple of months. Hans Reiser the lead developer of reiserfs is on trial as suspected murder of his missing wife. Maybe as a precaution Suse decided to switch to ext3.
Actually, the decision to switch from reiser to ext3 as the default filesystem in openSUSE 10.2 is not related to Hans Reiser being arrested on murder charges. Most of the maintenance of reiser3 filesystem was being done by SUSE engineering, no new features were being added to reiser3 as reiser4 was seen as 'live' branch of the project. However, reiser4 was not, and still isn't, accepted into the mainline kernel. There was/is no upgrade from reiser3 to reiser4 available, and the future roadmap for ext3 looks more assured in terms of upgrading to ext4 (when available). You can see a copy of the letter sent by Jeff Mahoney, on this subject here: http://linux.wordpress.com/2006/09/27/suse-102-ditching-reiserfs-as-it-defau... Jon -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org