Peter Foldiak wrote:
Marcel (Hilzinger),
Did you write this Linux Magazine article? Could you give some details on what
the problem was?
Peter
On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:34, Hans Reiser wrote:
There are so little details that it is hard to know what the problem
they had was. It does sound though like we need to smooth out the
commits. We have deferred that for a while. I know how we should do
it, we just need to do it. Sigh, there are so many things like
that..... Probably fsync should be optimized first....
Hans
Peter Foldiak wrote:
The preview of the April (!?!) 2006 issue of Linux Magazine has an article
http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/65/Super_Underground_Desktop.pdf
saying that Reiser4 is the root filesystem for the distribution
"Underground Desktop"
http://www.ludos.org/
but says "it failed to live up to the expectations we had for Reiser4",
blaming Reiser4 for some performance problems. Not much detail is given.
Zenwalk Linux provides Reiser4 as one of it's fs available for any
partition since 05/2005 (Zenwalk actually supports ext2, ext3, Reiser3,
Reiser4 and XFS). Reiser4 is in my experience the faster journalized
fs, XFS comes second.
It also says that "Grub does not support Reiser4", so LILO is used. (Is
that true?)
I would rather say that Grub1 (stable) is not really supported anymore,
and Grub2 is not finished yet. Grub1 doesn't support Reiser4 until
patched with the patch available on Namesys repository . Lately I tried
Grub + reiser4 patch with Vanilla 2.6.15.2 : it's not stable.
Lilo is usually better than Grub in most situations, it's always
actively supported, and supports Reiser4 out of the box.
Do you know of any other distributions that comes with Reiser4 by default
root file system?
Yes, Zenwalk : a simple, yet modern OS ;)
Peter
Jean-Philippe
Zenwalk.org
