On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:30 PM, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 03:29:06PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >>> >>> Filesystems >>> >>> Compare Ext2/3/4, Reiser4, JFS, XFS (Add jfsutils to the book) >>> >> I've no useful comments on the rest of this, but isn't reiser4 more >> or less defunct at the moment? Btrfs seems to be where development >> that will get into the kernel seems to be happening, although I'm >> not sure it's yet ready (e.g. fsck). > > My thought was that since we already have Reiser in the book, then we > should discuss that. Doing some research though, it is not SuSE's > default any more. Perhaps we should drop Reiser completely. > > I agree that Btrfs is not ready: "Note that Btrfs does not yet have a > fsck tool that can fix errors. While Btrfs is stable on a stable > machine, it is currently possible to corrupt a filesystem irrecoverably > if your machine crashes or loses power on disks that don't handle flush > requests correctly. This will be fixed when the fsck tool is ready. " > > There are some interesting benchmarks at > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_2639_fs&num=1 > > -- Bruce > --
reiserfs is mainline, even though reiserfs4 is not. Couldn't hurt saying what it is, and where to find the tools. (I probably won't be using it myself though, although at one point I ran reiserfs4 for a year). -- Nathan Coulson (conathan) ------ Location: British Columbia, Canada Timezone: PST (-8) Webpage: http://www.nathancoulson.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
