Hello Matthias, Your "proven" reasoning sounds a bit strange to me..Microsoft (aka major distributor at least in my books) had her filesystems "in the field" for ages, does this prove any of them good (or bad for that matter)? I don't think I'd wait for a distributor to shove reiser4 down my throat, just because the distributor seems to trust it, so the logical course would be for me to try it out. I'll grant you that I am not using it on the mission critical server, because our hosting provider will not support it (ext3 addicts..oh well) but I do have it on my development server, that does house critical code and receives all kinds of hammering from yours truly; And I use it at home. I suppose my point is, filesystem testing and adoption belongs to the masses be they your average Joe Linux user or a sysadmin who feels confident enough in the filesystem's abilities to take the plunge. I run reiser4, I'm happy with it, it is stable enough to carry out my *own* activities.
Happy holidays, Yiannis. -----Original Message----- From: Matthias Andree [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 December 2004 10:23 To: Hans Reiser Cc: [email protected]; Stefan Traby Subject: Re: Congratulations! we have got hash function screwed up Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>Again, this is a lame excuse for a bug. First you declare some >>features on your filesystem, later, when it turns out that it isn't >>being delivered, you act as if this were a known condition. >> > Well this is true, you are right. Reiser4 is the fix though. No, it isn't. Reiser4 is an alternative beast. Or will it transparently "fix" the collision problem in a 3.5 or 3.6 file system, in a way that is backwards compatible with 3.6 drivers? If not, please fix reiser3.6. Given that Reiser4 isn't "proven" yet in the field (for that, it would have to be used as the default file system by at least one major distributor for at least a year), it is certainly not an option for servers _yet_. A file system that intransparently (i. e. not inode count or block count) refuses to create a new file doesn't belong on _my_ production machines, which shall migrate away from reiserfs on the next suitable occasion (such as upgrades). There's ext3fs, jfs, xfs, and in 2006 or 2007, we'll talk about reiser4 again. Yes, I am conservative WRT file systems and storage. -- Matthias Andree ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs. Note:__________________________________________________________________ This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please immediately delete it and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. Jaguar Freight Services and any of its subsidiaries each reserve the right to monitor all e-mail communications through its networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of any such entity. ________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail has been scanned for all viruses by Star Internet. The service is powered by MessageLabs.
