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The Thursday 2006-11-30 at 20:26 -0800, Kai Ponte wrote: > > Here Jeff Mahoney explains the shift from Reiser to ext3 in the default > > installation of opensuse desktop: > > http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2006-09/msg00542.html > > That is very intersting to read. Old stuff :-p > I have noticed serious problems - particularly when compared to the pathetic > NTFS - in directories with large numbers of files. My media directory has > around 6000 files in various sub directories and it always kills konqeror > when displaying any portion of it. I have tested reiserfs on a dir with a million files and works fine. Try that with ext3! "Works fine" doesn't mean that you can happily list the contents, by the way ;-) > Also, I paid particular attention to this part, "ReiserFS v3 is a dead end. > Hans has been pushing reiser4 for years now > and declared Reiser3 in maintenance mode. Any changes that aren't bug > fixes are met with violent resistance. Reiser4 is not an incremental > update and requires a reformat, which is unreasonable for most people." > > I thought I WAS on v4, so I'm curious why v3 is even discussed. No, you are not on v4. Not if you are using a stock SuSE distro. You need to patch kernels and do nasty developer stuff ;-) > > No need to change a running installation, though. > > But I'll use ext3 in all future installs to future-proof them. > > Yeah, it seems like the world is moving to ext3, which is also mentioned in > the posting. Notice that the distro is not deprecating reiserfs. It is simply offering, by default, to install on ext3 - or rather, will do so on next version - but you can just click on the reiserfs button if you prefer it so. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Made with pgp4pine 1.76 iD8DBQFFcES4tTMYHG2NR9URAn9XAJ4wbD4UYeVT11KZMQcaez0mYGjtVwCfZvA8 t4Wwgr+a23qgCB5qBlBBg3U= =UITa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
