On 9/4/05, Ben Rockwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
If they are not broke don't fix them... I wouldn't mind seeing XFS or JFS support in solaris. But is it worth the work, i'm not sure. I know XFS contains about a million lines of code, that is alot of work to port to Solaris. Ext3 is the current filesystem i use on my Linux boxes. If they could get ext2 running, I'm pretty sure the solaris ext2 drivers could be patched to work with the latest versions. > 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 Sorry Ben, i did mean exactly as I said it, I will NEVER support reiserFS I used it for a while a few years ago, and it corrupted my data, this wasn't some alpha or beta version or as the result of the system loosing power, this was the default stable version in a stable enviroment, and it still repreatedly corrupted my data. Any supposedly stable filesystem that corrupts my data will never see the light of day on any of my systems. Reiser team just makes the wrong desicsions and cuts corners in the wrong places in the name of speed. > 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). > > > > > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
