Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2430 mails)

[Tom Patton <thpnalb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 23:55 +0200, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 02:51:53PM -0700, John Andersen wrote:
> > ZDNet has an article on this up now:
> >
> > Reiser FS: The open source file system fallout
> >
> > Posted by Jason Perlow
> >
> > http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8647
> >
> >
> > My personal opinion based solely on my own experience  is that Reiserfs
> > is a good system that is highly reliable, but is likely to disappear mostly
> > because Hans was a social ass.
>
> Please be aware that the old reiserfs is mostly maintained outside of Namesys.
> Only reiserfs4 is likely never going to happen...
>
> Ciao, Marcus
> From what little I know of the plans, nothing of reiserfs4 interested
me.  Ext3 was tried on 3 systems here at home, and felt sluggish.  It
also seemed to cause problems with Zoneminder recording video alarms.
New installs on reiser3 cured all problems, so I sure hope it remains a
viable system.  As mature as it is, I think that should be possible...
unless some "clever" programmer starts placing "hooks" into his ap for a
specific file system.  (Wasn't that part of the plan for the new rfs4?)

Tom in NM


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