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.

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