On Sun, May 27, 2007 6:44 pm, Jonathan Ervine wrote: > On Monday 28 May 2007 01:37:36 Fajar Priyanto wrote: >> On Sunday 27 May 2007 23:13, Kai Ponte wrote: >> > that's probably a good thing. :P >> > >> > I have one question to the group. When I wiped Vista and formatted >> my >> > drive on the laptop, instead of Reiser - which was the default for >> > 9.1-10.1 for me - it formatted my partitions as ext3. >> > >> > Any reason for the switch? I have no compliants, just wondering. >> >> I believe it's been heavily discussed in the last couple of months. >> Hans Reiser the lead developer of reiserfs is on trial as suspected >> murder >> of his missing wife. Maybe as a precaution Suse decided to switch to >> ext3. > > Actually, the decision to switch from reiser to ext3 as the default > filesystem > in openSUSE 10.2 is not related to Hans Reiser being arrested on > murder > charges. Most of the maintenance of reiser3 filesystem was being done > by SUSE > engineering,
Okay, that makes sense. I did an informal test. Under my music folder, I have 32G of music files (mostly mp3 and ogg) which - under reiser - would take forever to open. It seems under ext3 that it takes less time. Thanks for the answer. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
