Tracy R Reed wrote: > James G. Sack (jim) wrote: >> I guess there are still a couple of his lieutenants working on it now, >> but I wonder where/if reiserfs will go? > > Unfortunately I doubt it is going anywhere. > >> I also wonder whether the awakened interest in filesystems will lead to >> independent consideration of any of the reiser ideas/techniques. >> </uninformed_babbling> > > I think so. But I'm concerned about how long it will take. RedHat seems > to be happy with ext3 but that won't carry them far enough. And the lead > time on developing a trustworthy filesystem is years. Coincidentally I > did hear about btrfs for the first time this morning: > > http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Btrfs_Online_Resizing_Ext3_Conversion_and_More > > Still in the very early stages but at least someone is doing something. > >
Yes, I saw that on lwn.net yesterday. For a few extra words from Jonathan Corbet's pen, here's a "freelink" http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/265257/ffa80e023bf37e41/ which I believe doesn't constiture misuse of this lwn feature.. ..because it might encourage someone to subscribe. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
