On Saturday 28 October 2006 19:26, Christopher Sawtell wrote: [...] > My experience with Reiser4 is almost entirely positive. I have been > using Reiser4 on my laptop for about 18 months or so. It has been > prooven to be very reliable in that setting, with the glaring > exception that attempts to write to the disk when it's full have > disastrous consequences. It trashes files by the dozen instead of > saying 'Disk Full'. :-( Other folk on the reiserfs mailing list > corroborate this.
Appreciate your response Chris. I knew you'd hiccoughed with Reiser4 but I didn't know the reason. A full disk will not be problem on our desktop machine, in the foreseeable future. > The other point about both Reiser file systems is that Hans Reiser, > the lead programmer, is currently in jail waiting to plead before a > murder trial. Goodness only knows what is going to happen, but I am > continuing to use Reiser4 in the interim, but if I was setting up a > new machine today I'd probably use something else. Mmmm... a sticky business, it has come up on several of the feeds I monitor! [...] > Note that Reiser4 is not a upgrade release of ReiserFS. Reiser4 is > a _completely_ different animal, to be sure using lessons learnt > from the earlier ReiserFS exercise. Yes, I understood that point. > http://www.namesys.com/ Thanks. I've sat through viewing a dry presentation on Reiser4 that Hans gave at - I believe - Google early this year. Cheers... Rex ps: I've shot off an enquiry to my ISP asking why my posts to the list were held up on their servers for 1~2 days. Its be acknowledged with no answer yet.
