On Wednesday 28 March 2007, Jeff Rollin wrote: > openSUSE (or is it > Novell?) certainly seem to be less keen on Reiserfs than they used to > be, judging from reports from about the beginning of the year.
It's unlikely that Novell has issues with the current technical quality of reiserfs, which is as good now as it's been for years, and that's pretty good. Much more likely is that Hans Reiser IS NameSys, and with his recent troubles there's a big question mark and uncertainty as to whether NameSys can deliver on support and maintenance. Plus, I see very little ongoing effort to get reiser to support enormous volume sizes. There's reiser4, but I doubt a decent fsck tool for it will ever see the light of day. Meanwhile development on ext4 proceeds, and those who need >16TB filesystems will have one shortly. All in all, the odds are tipping in favour of ext4 alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
