Quoting Nadav Har'El, from the post of Thu, 17 Oct: > > By the way, Hans Reiser's original rationale for writing ReiserFS was > not to write a journaling filesystem that will take over Linux, per se > - it was *exectly* to write a filesystem that will alleviate the need > for database files, configuration files, registries, tar files and > things like that.
as my friend Blumzi says "Journaling just happend to get implemented on the way to the makolet" in the meantime it's been very good at getting him funding from SuSE, mp3.com and others, and doesn't steer him off course, so I think it's kosher and good. > ReiserFS 4, which will be released in a couple of months, will still > be a long way from Resier's original vision. indeed, he's going to speak about it at SVLUG in November. I hope they publish the slides and DiVX of the lecture, or at least mp3. -- Movie event of the year Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ This post is encrypted twice with ROT-13. Documenting or attempting to crack this encryption is illegal.
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