Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2714 mails)

["Carlos E. R." <robin.listas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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The Monday 2007-05-14 at 02:15 +0200, Philipp Thomas wrote:

> On Sun, 13 May 2007 15:54:13 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
> 
> >It certainly wasn't done for technical reasons, seems like mostly a cost 
> >issue.
> 
> It's not true, unless you count maintainability as a cost issue. Plus
> there will be an update path from ext3 to ext4, something that
> reiserfs can't offer. And besides there being no path from reiserfs3
> to reiserfs4, reiserfs4 with its metadata that can be changed by
> plugins is a maintenance nightmare.

I understand he thinks about going to xfs instead of ext3, not about 
leaving reiserfs.

And I agree with the advisability of the decision to drop reiserfs as 
default fs, although I like that filesystem a lot, and I keep using it.


- -- 
Cheers,
       Carlos E. R.

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