Wilco Beekhuizen wrote: > 2007/12/11, Barry Loo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 12/11/07, Andrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> May be >>> some one know, what happened with main site namesys? > > Well since the main author of reiserfs got arrested (no kidding) > reiser4 progress has slowed down a lot. So I don't know if reiser4 > ever comes around. > > Anyway, recent distros switched back to ext3 instead of reiser3. For > example, ls DIR can take 5 times longer on reiser3 on a large > directory (1000+ files/dirs). Also I tried mounting a 400 GB reiser3 > partition. It takes more than 10 seconds while ext3 does it almost > instantly. If these problems are not fixed in reiser4 I doubt it will > become a success with ever growing HD's.
I agree - I used to use ReiserFS but have since moved to ext3 for smaller partitions and xfs for larger. On a 200Gb partition, XFS gave me over 4Gb more space than ext3, and no silly lost+found dir either :-) Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
