-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-08-15 22:10, Duaine Hechler wrote:
P.S. Whatever version reiserfs is on now has done good so far - maybe the developers just need to - maintain - the current version. And keep it as a viable option in openSUSE.
Reiserfs is being currently maintained and you can use it. I do. What is not known is for how long they will keep it - probably as long as the maintenance period of SLEx 9 (or 10?) requires it. The demise of reiserfs is not political, but neither it is technical, IMO. It is human, or business. The project was pushed by one brilliant developer. He disappeared - no need to say why. Without his push, the project, which apparently doesn't get much community support, languishes. Why doesn't it have more support? I don't know. Perhaps because it is very difficult to understand, technically. The current version of reiserfs was integrated in the kernel. At the time, the people that designed it left it to the kernel and moved on design the new version, #4. They considered that it was the responsibility of the kernel people to maintain it. IMO, they barely do so. IIRC, there were two devs on SuSE that did the maintenance. One left, so now there is only one. Reiserfs has currently some problems. It needs improving, it doesn't scale well as sizes increase and increase, for example (only one thread per system, or something of the sort). Other filesystems are currently being improved. Reiserfs is frozen. IMO, in our FOSS world, there is no guarantee that a piece of software we, as users, love, will be mantained for ever, even if we want it. We depend on developers keeping their interest, which can be different than ours. This is human. They may design some thing, then have a new bright idea, and go for it abandoning their previous pet. Worse if it's somebody else's pet, which is the case (IMO). We are users, not customers. We have little influence in what they do, because as they develop in their free time, it is their choice, not ours. Some maybe fortunate to be paid for developing, in which case I suppose they are more or less told what to do. So, yes, we can say that we want reiserfs. So what? We are nobody. - -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 11.2 x86_64 "Emerald" GM (Elessar)) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.12 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxob40ACgkQU92UU+smfQVKVACbBdYQq1XTBp0SSXOqXGY8greC 04wAmgN02RFVIe6kf5O5VNIAZoog70ws =GXod -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org