Shawn is right, ReiserFS is not the de facto standard for any Linux
distro that I know of, and based on what I'm seeing and hearing it
perhaps never will be. ReiserFS _was_ in a possition to take over the
reigns of power from ext2 when ext3 was pretty new and suffering some
issues several years ago, but then the ReiserFS 4 thing started up and
its been in the back seat since.
I strongly disagree that XFS and JFS are at the end of their ropes.
Both these filesystems are amazing and aren't dead or dying any time
soon. It would be nice to see people start migrating off ext3 to either
of these, but lets face it, people tend to use whatever is the default,
and on many systems thats ext3.
I know James didn't mean it like this, but I can't see being against any
project. I'd love to see ReiserFS on Solaris! I'm not sure I'd use it
on any system I truely cared much about, at least based on recent
releases of ReiserFS, but never the less it would be awesome to have.
One of the many things that Linux has that no one else does is
filesystems, en mass... its a filesystem enthusiasts wonderland (XFS,
JFS, VxFS, ext2/3, ResierFS, OpenAFS, CODA, Intermezzo, Lustre, on and
on and on). I think what James was refering to what the bit saying "Has
anyone at Sun...", to which I would agree, if RieserFS was coming over
that would be a community project... Sun shouldn't (and I think
wouldn't) have anything to do with it. I'm sure some Sun engineers
would be willing to help out and get involved, but that would be
off-time volenteering.
But, back to the origonal post... of all the filesystems on Linux I
think ReiserFS would be on the bottom of my list. ext2/3 is what people
need. XFS/JFS would be damned nice.
benr.
Felix Schulte wrote:
On 9/4/05, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 9/3/05, Felix Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Has anyone at Sun yet thought about porting ReiserFS to OpenSolaris?
Not for booting but having a way to share partitions on dual-boot
systems, USB sticks or mobile disks.
--
i would be against it, because even in linux its not known as a stable
Filesystem, moving it to solaris would do little to improve things, we
can intergrate ext2 or at least polish it up a bit.
The old ext2 module for Solaris no longer works for ext file systems
created by Redhat and Suse kernels so forget that idea. Neither can
Solaris ext2 read them nor can the Linux mke2fs be downgraded to
create one readable by Solaris.
Or port xfs or
jfs to Solaris if we really want another FS that can be shared between
Solaris and Linux,
Both xfs and jfs are - like ufs - at the end of their development
line, ReiserFS isn't. And ReiserFS is becoming more and more the de
facto standard on Linux.
and i really don't see the point, computers are
getting so cheap just setup a seperate box to be used as a fileserver.
What about sharing disks or USB sticks between computers? And a file
server only works if the computers are connected and in some cases
direct connections may be explicitly forbidden (e.g. intranet).
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