On Friday 31 December 2010 16:27:02 Dale wrote: > 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
you are obviously not subscribed to the reiserfs ml. There are the occasional fixes and lately even some (minor) updates. Being in maintenance mode is a GOOD THING for a file system.
