On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Cristian Rodríguez
Larry Stotler escribió: Shame that people crap on it
because the designer is a murderer.
You are not well informed then, Jeff Mahoney published the real reasons behind this change, 2 years ago
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-09/msg00542.html
It has **nothing** to do with the terrible personal problems of Hans Reiser.
Yeah, I was kinda off the cuff with that one, but unfortunately, that has become the perception. I should have mentioned that a lot of the kernel devs didn't like his attitude that much either(especially the push for reiser4). However, his personal problems and attitudes have pushed a great many people away from using it as much as the M$ deal pushed people from Novell/openSUSE. It may be a small percentage, but it did happen. However, ext3 is nowhere near as good as resier3 from my testing. It doesn't recover very well from unexpected power loss, isn't as stable, and it isn't as fast as reiser3. I haven't toyed with reiser4 much, but a friend of mine has, and he says it's really fast and he hasn't had any stability problems. He's running a software raid on 3 750GB drives with amazing speed.
and extended without him.
That's not quite right.
AFAIK, there has been some work on reiser4, but not enough. Yes, moving to resier4 requires a reformat, but so does moving to any other file system. ext4 has shown a lot of promise, but it's still not up to speed from what I have seen. If they can get ext4 up to speed, I'll switch since reiser doesn't look like it has a long term solution, but until then, I will keep using it. I recently mounted a resier3 partition from 11.0 under SuSE 7.3 with no problems. That shows a great deal of backwards compatibility to say the least. I don't reformat my data partitions, and some are several years old with no problems. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org