-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 20:26 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote:
Here Jeff Mahoney explains the shift from Reiser to ext3 in the default installation of opensuse desktop: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-09/msg00542.html
That is very intersting to read.
Old stuff :-p
I have noticed serious problems - particularly when compared to the pathetic NTFS - in directories with large numbers of files. My media directory has around 6000 files in various sub directories and it always kills konqeror when displaying any portion of it.
I have tested reiserfs on a dir with a million files and works fine. Try that with ext3! "Works fine" doesn't mean that you can happily list the contents, by the way ;-)
Also, I paid particular attention to this part, "ReiserFS v3 is a dead end. Hans has been pushing reiser4 for years now and declared Reiser3 in maintenance mode. Any changes that aren't bug fixes are met with violent resistance. Reiser4 is not an incremental update and requires a reformat, which is unreasonable for most people."
I thought I WAS on v4, so I'm curious why v3 is even discussed.
No, you are not on v4. Not if you are using a stock SuSE distro. You need to patch kernels and do nasty developer stuff ;-)
No need to change a running installation, though. But I'll use ext3 in all future installs to future-proof them.
Yeah, it seems like the world is moving to ext3, which is also mentioned in the posting.
Notice that the distro is not deprecating reiserfs. It is simply offering, by default, to install on ext3 - or rather, will do so on next version - but you can just click on the reiserfs button if you prefer it so. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFcES4tTMYHG2NR9URAn9XAJ4wbD4UYeVT11KZMQcaez0mYGjtVwCfZvA8 t4Wwgr+a23qgCB5qBlBBg3U= =UITa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org