On Sunday 13 May 2007 04:14, M Harris wrote: > At any rate (as you might have guessed) I'm > really hoping that openSUSE will reconsider on making reiserfs the > default... and I hope that a good group will take the namesys folks on and > help them get the Reiser4 fs into the mainline kernel soon. The filesystem > is good, and its worth saving and promoting... regardless what happens with > Hans. >
Maybe. But my concern is for something maintainable for the future. Reiser has his problems which have a similar impact to falling under the proverbial bus, and I seem to remember reading something either by him or quoting him, which iirc in essence said that none of the distros people understood reiserfs properly, that suse's changes were wrong, and even his developers don't fully understand it. So now, currently, there is no maintenance available in practical terms - anything which is done, Reiser might insist on reworking, as and when he becomes free. Resiserfs is at a dead end, and with hindsight it could have been seen to be a dead end way back. Nobody other than Suse made it default fs, so it was a minority decision. At least they have left a forward path with ext3, so I feel that no criticism is due. I hope it goes forward, but I can't see it under current circumstances. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
