From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L54iC-0000rw-HV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:40:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A98A1E00C5; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f20.google.com (mail-qy0-f20.google.com [209.85.221.20]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A4E1E00C5 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:40:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk13 with SMTP id 13so380884qyk.10 for ; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:40:41 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-disposition :message-id:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=V2+gGfMeNUhRXLYfPY/p2j5ODWdwd0+P4eDOU6JR0+A=; b=O+3kX4XbSMYgFRSgRAmvJA7mwIJ9C6llaU6vp30soJ3YLpmx2lRTqMw7KT3pKJ0OHA yeECVg4j2vH5Av04VvuWiSyv4kc13/nVd9IinetrWyu8yUBYNc3tQjanigrn9CZhvEE9 MUmY8I6IbYhpqc4M/ntLoiImVSy9G09+hFnbA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-disposition:message-id:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=Hzf5w2FOoZ5qPBdLqLzbeiSqCBcnt7rMqkcs/Mue5grIebZIo6GrbDz9Ej3YKhRLt9 s0I2m7XWLAFxg5bEQNb4VorXfnWRcx4QHYOpn3qXWxBCntvZRFlBQ9c0S6zpZTe/2CVn reUmzHenQQRjM1ijEeC9+mRAv0CI4uttKInUQ= Received: by 10.214.243.8 with SMTP id q8mr4322875qah.319.1227645641254; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:40:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.6? (dsl-243-253-47.telkomadsl.co.za [41.243.253.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 4sm13206632yxj.7.2008.11.25.12.40.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 25 Nov 2008 12:40:39 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] filesystems Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:40:26 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <1227479490.26615.47.camel@rattus> <200811252007.55035.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <38af3d670811251124v7d447918v82b7ec11baafd1a9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <38af3d670811251124v7d447918v82b7ec11baafd1a9@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811252240.26545.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ac18682e-f9e0-4a53-9874-6c2d92979e5f X-Archives-Hash: dcdd17ff9f9742f509e6aaf1e97f90d2 On Tuesday 25 November 2008 21:24:48 Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > I have no expertise to decide on that matter, > but the fact that pretty much every linux distribution chooses ext3 by > default suggests it is the safest (at least for simple desktop/laptop > usage), no? I don't think that has anything to do with performance or safety. Instead: 1. Red Hat suffers from a serious case of Not Invented Here Syndrome. They do good work, but they have that little eccentricity too. ReiserFS was funded in large part by SuSE, therefore RH are ill-inclined to use it. Many distros follow Red Hat's lead, very few go with SuSE to wherever SuSE is going. Who knows why Debian made their choice - it' s probably as simple as ext3 traces it roots back much further than Reiser can 2. NameSys was largely driven by the fame (infamy?) of it's owner - a typical mad scientist geek who writes excellent code. But he got himself in jail and the risk associated with using his filesystem sans reliable know maintainer is too great a risk for most distros -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com