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.

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