Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2532 mails)

[Sam Clemens <clemens.sam1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Tom Patton wrote:
> 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?)

Tying an app to a specific filesystem sounds like the road well-paved
road of good intentions straight to early obsolescence.

> Tom in NM

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