> > SuSE's has been pushing for the inclusion of reserfs since 2.2.14. >
>Reasons for it not making the mainline is rather political rather than
>technical. alan cox seems to favor ext3 over reiserfs for some reason. but
>accdg to Linus the chances of RFS making it in 2.4 is almost certain over other
>journaling filesystem contenders. > >
I'm sorry but i have to disagree with you on this. Although there may be some
politics involved, the main reason is technical. Both Alan and Linus want to
develop a common 'journalling' layer which should be used by the different
implementations of journaling filesystems being contributed to Linux (which now
number at 4 [ext3, reiser, ibm jfs, sgi]) . WIthout this, each implementation
will just reinvent the wheel on several aspects of their code.
This common layer will also allow various journalling file systems to be used
concurrently with other parts of the kernel, namely, NFS, and RAID5.
The probable reason why Alan favors ext3 over reiser is that ext3 builds over
the existing structure of ext2, and people can revert back to ext2 if things
fail.
> it not being in the mainline kernel yet
> should not be a deterrent. in fact this is the breather that linux has been
> waiting to make it compete in the enterprise. SuSE, who designed Reiserfs
> thru Hans Reiserf, has taken a bold step to integrate it in the distro
> together with LVM to push linux to the enterprise. and we have been
> consistent with that with the same variation of code use for SuSE for IBM
> S/390 mainframes.
It not being in the mainline kernel yet means not too many people have yet to
try it out and find obscure problems. The more people who use it, the more
mature a product gets. Who was it that said the most stable part of windows
was the solitaire program?
And according to the web page, reiser is only x86, unless the information is
outdated.
Point being, trying on reiserfs is still a risk, although people who have used
it (like me) can attest to the stability. And even in my case, i still have
come up with FS corruptions, due to bad hardware, which i'm sure will not be as
devastating as if i were using ext2.
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