Alan McKinnon wrote:
When was the last time portage offered you a reiser update? The reiser4progs ebuild has 13 Changelog entries in 2.5 years, 8 of them are stabilisation toe various arches. Current version is 1.0.7 and has been there for 23 months. reiserfsprogs is similar, on 3.6.21 for 23 months and one update (not a stabilisation) since Aug 2007 reiser4 is not in the mainline kernel, and highly unlikely to ever be there according to the last thing I heard Linus say on the matter. Yes, it's in Zen IIRC, but Zen is not mainline. And reiser4 will probably never have a real fsck either (technical restriction - it's plugins that do the work and fsck cannot know what the plugins did) Hans *was* reiserfs for all practical purposes. SuSE funded most of Reiserfs in the early days and they have switched away from it for logistic reasons. Does any of that sound to you like "actively maintained"? It's my opinion that reiser is in security-fix-only mode from whoever is maintaining it. If everything else around it stays the same, the fs will obviously continue working just as it always did. But the surrounding system is not stable, it changes rapidly, especially in kernel space, so the odds are stacked against reiser for bitrot. For all these reasons, I regretfully switched my own systems over to ext4 some time ago. Rieser was a good fs whose time has come and gone and I no longer had warm and fuzzies about the future with it.
I'm not sure I EVER saw a update to reiserfs. I was hoping it was just that good. lol
This is also the reason I was considering moving to ext4 or something. How has ext4 been treating you since the switch? I also assume you have UPSs as well?
Dale :-) :-)
