I just noticed that Reiser4 has been released. I just had a couple of questions: 1. Is is worth upgrading to it yet (from Reiser3, it think. The one 9.1 ships with) 2. If so, what is the most painless way to do so. Thanks! Kirk Coombs -- visit me at http://www.sparticus.us
On Friday 27 August 2004 01:17, Kirk Coombs wrote:
I just noticed that Reiser4 has been released.
It was just pulled, there were several bugs in it that weren't trivial. Hans Reiser said to expect at least 6 weeks before the code review was completed From the discussion on the kernel mailing list, it isn't at all certain that it will be included at all, in its present form.
I just had a couple of questions:
1. Is is worth upgrading to it yet (from Reiser3, it think. The one 9.1 ships with)
You can't upgrade, reiser4 isn't related to reiser3 in anything other than name. There is no upgrade path other than backup - reformat - restore and no, now would not be a good time to install it on a machine you're actually using, unless you're doing it for testing purposes
You can't upgrade, reiser4 isn't related to reiser3 in anything other than name. There is no upgrade path other than backup - reformat - restore
and no, now would not be a good time to install it on a machine you're actually using, unless you're doing it for testing purposes
That's good enough for me. -- visit me at http://www.sparticus.us
On Thursday 26 August 2004 03:21 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 27 August 2004 01:17, Kirk Coombs wrote:
I just noticed that Reiser4 has been released.
It was just pulled, there were several bugs in it that weren't trivial. Hans Reiser said to expect at least 6 weeks before the code review was completed
Amazing! Hans was blowing his horn on Slashdot just the other day on how complete and exhaustive his testing was.... -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Friday 27 August 2004 05:09, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 26 August 2004 03:21 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 27 August 2004 01:17, Kirk Coombs wrote:
I just noticed that Reiser4 has been released.
It was just pulled, there were several bugs in it that weren't trivial. Hans Reiser said to expect at least 6 weeks before the code review was completed
Amazing! Hans was blowing his horn on Slashdot just the other day on how complete and exhaustive his testing was....
Yes, well, that was before he encountered Alexander Viro :) From lkml <quote> I allowed myself to get talked out of a final top to bottom code audit, and obviously that was a mistake. It will probably take about 6 weeks. Apologies for wasting your time before that was done. Hans </quote>
On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:17 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
From lkml
<quote> I allowed myself to get talked out of a final top to bottom code audit, and obviously that was a mistake.
It will probably take about 6 weeks. Apologies for wasting your time before that was done.
Hans </quote>
Interestingly enough, there is not a word of this on Namesys's pages. Whats up with that? -- _____________________________________ John Andersen
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004 04:26 pm, John Andersen wrote:
On Thursday 26 August 2004 07:17 pm, Anders Johansson wrote:
From lkml
<quote> I allowed myself to get talked out of a final top to bottom code audit, and obviously that was a mistake.
It will probably take about 6 weeks. Apologies for wasting your time before that was done.
Hans </quote>
Interestingly enough, there is not a word of this on Namesys's pages. Whats up with that?
Updating the website might have taken second place, I think Hans has his hands full with the flame war on the reiser list. However some good ideas are coming out of it, reiser4 has a bright future, even if it is still testing. I've got a need for a fast partition full of replicated data, so if anyone has reiser4 loading into a stock Suse9.1 kernel please tell us about it. michaelj -- Michael James michael.james@csiro.au System Administrator voice: 02 6246 5040 CSIRO Bioinformatics Facility fax: 02 6246 5166
Michael wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] Reiser4' on Fri, Aug 27 at 02:53: [...]
However some good ideas are coming out of it, reiser4 has a bright future, even if it is still testing.
I've got a need for a fast partition full of replicated data, so if anyone has reiser4 loading into a stock Suse9.1 kernel please tell us about it.
So, you need RAID-1 running a stable filesystem, right? I like 3ware cards and a pair of drives, then run reiser3 on the hardware raid (assuming lots of small files) or one of the other journaled filesystems if you're using very large files. Alternatively, use network block devices and software raid1 for a distributed mirrored setup. Or use something like a distributed Subversion (svk? I forget the name) or mysql with replication if you just need redundant data without an actual filesystem iterface. --Danny, noting that 'serious bugs' and 'reiser 4' were used in the same sentence just a moment ago, and that conflicts *big time* with anything that would justify replicated data...
John Andersen wrote:
Interestingly enough, there is not a word of this on Namesys's pages. Whats up with that?
As part of the kernel, I think most discussion takes place on the kernel mailing list. Andrew has added it into the -mm tree, perhaps for further testing. barrabas:/ftp/aug04/OPENVXI # grep -i reiser /usr/src/linux-2.6.9-rc1-mm1/.config CONFIG_REISER4_FS=m CONFIG_REISER4_LARGE_KEY=y # CONFIG_REISER4_CHECK is not set CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=y # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO=y CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR=y CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer =====LINUX ONLY USED HERE=====
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