From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EN7Fl-0002ih-SA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:16:06 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j95B761W027466; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:07:06 GMT Received: from anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.86]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j95B5NvL012684 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 11:05:23 GMT Received: from rsm.demon.co.uk ([80.177.111.50]) by anchor-post-36.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.42) id 1EN7DY-000Ahx-Kp for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 05 Oct 2005 11:13:48 +0000 Received: from uberlaptop.development.ltl (logos [195.2.133.104]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rsm.demon.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F9143C09E2 for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 12:13:47 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4 From: Roy Marples To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1128345431.6692.29.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> References: <623652d50509291110667cfab7@mail.gmail.com> <200509291432.57080.vapier@gentoo.org> <4340AC1E.8050103@gentoo.org> <623652d50510030210v222bf4b6q@mail.gmail.com> <1128345431.6692.29.camel@cgianelloni.nuvox.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-ebD4BlBrz0KFW2jnBfFf" Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:13:45 +0100 Message-Id: <1128510825.9767.5.camel@uberlaptop.ubernet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 X-Archives-Salt: d0571d7f-ac39-479d-810b-517e7426fbe4 X-Archives-Hash: 08ec83c8a030245632714aaf933d65a9 --=-ebD4BlBrz0KFW2jnBfFf Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 09:17 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:10 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > > On 03/10/05, Mike Doty wrote: > > > I'd prefer if the patch was left out for amd64 users, or included via= a > > > use flag. reiser4 isn't yet stable or proven on amd64. > >=20 > > A quick search found this quote: "The topic in channel #gentoo-amd64 > > on irc.freenode.net has said "Reiser4 is evil" for more than a year." > >=20 > > However http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64 and the forum threads it > > links to seem to suggest that people are successfully using reiser4 on > > amd64 with recent kernels? > My suggestion is to > try it. If it works for you, then great. If it doesn't, don't come > asking us, as we'll probably say something like "I told you so." >=20 > Basically, I think it is perfectly fine to play around with reiser4, but > I wouldn't trust it with *my* data. Not yet. >=20 I've been using reiser4 on and off on my amd64 box for ~ 6 months now without any reiser4 related issues. It mainly runs the stable tree aside from a few packages I maintain. Do I trust my data on reiser4? Just as much as I trust ext3, so I keep backups. Which everyone should do regardless of OS/fs type, etc :P --=20 Roy Marples Gentoo Linux Developer --=-ebD4BlBrz0KFW2jnBfFf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDQ7VoMfrAiBQZ0f4RAh9IAJ91QAm8vcouLR4I0dlBXjriC2UYPwCfVa60 d9MQ3aKIAjhEBOihuK54fis= =9YJ2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-ebD4BlBrz0KFW2jnBfFf-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list