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. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
