Re: [SLUG] Interesting topic - Reiser and EXT3

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Fri Oct 13 2006 - 11:21:28 EDT

On Fri, 13 Oct 2006, John Pugh wrote:

> There are a number of threads surrounding this topic, but one in
> particular that is stating that OpenSUSE 10.2, currently in Alpha 5 will
> be released with EXT3 as the default filesystem. Primarily the reasoning
> is that EXT3 has now caught up with Reiser from a scalability,
> functionality, and maturity perspective (h-trees and online expansion)
> that Reiser has enjoyed for many years. This does not imply in any way
> that we are dropping support for Reiser - filesystems live very long lives
> and Reiser will continue to be supported into the indefinite future.

Line breaks! (I added them.)

Anyhow, is this true with modern reiserfs?

http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Filesystems/reiserfs.html

I would not use it if it were. 

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