On 28/02/18 01:31 AM, stakanov wrote:
Well, before Reiser FS got "out of fashion", I was very happy with it. I never really understood why the development stopped on it (unless it was a one man show, then the reason was a dead wife. Sorry for the black humor, I am aware it was not funny for the wife).
Hans was the designer; it was coded by a team. The members of the team are still around and it is being supported and even Reiser4 is having work done on it. But it's no longer corporate; no-one is paying them and they get a lot of anguish from people saying what you're saying. HOWEVER it turns out that Hans was one of those brilliant people who was crazy-brilliant. As in "insanely brilliant" with the emphasis on insane, insane enough to be a murderer. But the design of ReiserFS is brilliant and unlike BtrFS and other file systems "he got it right the first time". Compared to other FS ReiserFS has had little work done on it because it never needed it. Hans got it right the first time. The real problem with ReiserFS is that even though Resiser4FS is pretty damn good, probably better than BtrFS or ext4, there isn't the commitment/popularity and it's really a one-man show and it hasn't the 'pressure' to be accepted into the kernel and so it's never going to see popular support. Chicken and egg in reverse.
F2FS I was not aware opensuse offered it...does it?
Take a look in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/fs I'm running a late model kernel out of the kernel_stable repository and F2FS is there. And others. The real downside of current ReiserFS is that it is single threaded. It was designed before multi-core CPUS were common and before there were muti-terabte drives with lots-a-lot file systems for PCs. Reiser4 was to address that. I'm managing my terabyte drives with LVM and partition geared to make backup on 5G DVD easy. Comparatively speaking. So each terabyte drive has a minimum of 25 file systems, maybe as many as 40. And of course more get created as LVM snapshots for during backup. Let's not even talk about thin provisioning. It got the point where lack of multi threading was limiting. So I'm converting my ReiserFS to JFS. I'm pleased with the results so far.
I do understand your issue with I inodes, but I am dead sure it will not happen to me ever with my uses cases.
After years of running UNIX V7 ... SYSIII ... SYSV ... SCO ... ext2 I never though it would happen to me, either. The I got hit by ext4.
Finally I did the install with grub written to / and the whole as standard swap and ext4. Seems to run well.
That's nice. I think you mean /boot. Where's your MBR?
Thank you for all the info, will have a look at the future of F2FS. Samsung seems quite active with OSS recently......
Solid state devices are, for the most part log-structured mechanisms at heart, so 'log structured' files system that make use of this have an edge. See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JFFS2 which is in the kernel and which refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAFFS https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBIFS - which performs better than JFFS2 on larger devices and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LogFS that aren't. LogFS worked, was in the kernel, but attracted not enough users to warrant staying there. There's also the pretty advanced https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NILFS though sometimes I wonder if its too advanced for the current user base., so much of it is 64-bit. -- A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting frowned upon? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org