[gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Andrew Watson
I have read that its quite useable now, is anyone running reiser4 ? Is it worth it in terms of performence and reliability? also, is it safe to run all partitions including / on reiser4. Im doing a fresh install (moving up to a raid system) how do I go about setting it up for reiser4? Thanks

Re: [gentoo-amd64] portage/emerge and rebooting questions

2005-06-24 Thread Alastair Murray
Tres Melton wrote: I was reading the minutes of the gcc summit and it seems that the register allocator is going to get reworked again. Although it will be quite sometime for any changes to make their way down to us users when they do is that going to mean a complete rebuild of our

Re: [gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Tres Melton
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 16:15 -0700, Anthony Gorecki wrote: On Friday, June 24, 2005 10:23 am, Andrew Watson wrote: Is it worth it in terms of performence and reliability? also, is it safe to run all partitions including / on reiser4. Reiser4 does not presently work with AMD64 architectures,

Re: [gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Anthony Gorecki
On Friday, June 24, 2005 4:32 pm, Tres Melton wrote: Cool when you can plugin whatever encryption module you want and scary because if there is a hiccup anywhere your data might never be recoverable. That quite accurately sums up my concerns regarding the filesystem . :) Do you happen to

Re: [gentoo-amd64] reiser4 desktop - worth it?

2005-06-24 Thread Tres Melton
On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 17:13 -0700, Anthony Gorecki wrote: On Friday, June 24, 2005 5:01 pm, Tres Melton wrote: mirroring the data on each Opteron This I don't understand. How can you mirror filesystem data on a CPU? The motherboard (for the desktop machine) would likely be one of the Tyan