On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: > On 21 February 2010 14:03, Volker Armin Hemmann > > <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: > >> I know that some of you have been using reiser4 for some years now. > >> How does it compare in performance and reliability in terms to > >> reiserfs and xfs? > > > > they don't even come close in performance. XFS sucks with files who are > > not multi megabyte in size. > > > >> A few years ago I remember there were problems compiling or running > >> some applications/libraries on reiser4 - are these problems now over? > >> Any gotchas? > > > > a loooong time ago there was a bug when compiling kde and without > > compression. Fixed shortly afterwards, never had a problem again. > > Thanks Volker for a prompt reply. Is reiser4 still being developed, > or is Linux now moving towards ext4?
linux is moving toward btrfs. ext4 is just a stop gap measure. One that is only a good alternative if you don't care about your data. btw, the one point that kept resier4 out was 'layer violations'. Interesstingly btrfs is nothing but a huge 'violation' ... And yes, Edward is still working on it.
