>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.
there is a different sentiment here in Oakland and downtown Silicon Valley about this.
in the an SVLUG gathering that i've been to last month where Linus and our very own
Hans Reiser were present, Linus admitted that there is very little chances of RSF
hitting the mainline kernel soon. that the technical differences related to that
common layer aspect of RSF is rather immaterial for 2.4 release.
>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.
a lot of linux people here have asked Allan the same question, why it seems to favor
ext3. in almost 4 diff. occasions several submissions of patches that couldve move
the RSF code in the 2.2.x.tree have been missed.
politics is politics however you looked at it.
it simply show that he favors redhat sponsored ext3 project over suse's RSF.
>And according to the web page, RSF is only x86, unless the information is outdated.
it was x86. but check out what we've done in our S/390 port where hans has miniatured
RSF code for this mainframe architecture.
>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.
you have a point. using linux use to be a risk not so long ago but overtime things
just change. the manner where RSF was developed did not violated any important
critieria of an open source project.
suse's strong support for RSF has greatly boosted linux in enterprise space. and
we're proud to have taken the RISK to standardized on RSF without a hitch and reap our
rewards.
i guess this is the same sentiment there in COMDEX where SuSE7 Professional was hailed
best server support..
L. Perens
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