From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NjDNm-0000pD-KK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:06:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3F1B2E04CB for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:06:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com (mail-fx0-f218.google.com [209.85.220.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C621E07E6 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 14:16:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm10 with SMTP id 10so1503643fxm.30 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:16:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=Vq1y73U6zHSEim58amJhq12Mwv5bEsjAuppgsoZQigA=; b=XZKyU9DrLdrftnlYc3Iv1+TTmPwNgc7oYNje84Uclz9HZvCTloN2R9qhyJESfRaJaZ ltdlcZvsMWCRTYq31jQLkT1BHigtHuytmpwqcqN+a8bOHX6r36f+Lllzh+oOuTg5T+ab hwiB51hW0Ou1IPCldTvFaSNJMKMXto9oODf8I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=Am+GBRFCHfhKL2Vcr2NeHbRV7tpyM6iJSBsA4glOjsOkI5xEJtb04si6FCx/u/590C KFgnbI4kckUpKJN61NvDHqvN5cT4F8nGWTA6gT7TGrATqTYQVLNEx3VNFaig/M++W+rN V+htLMVT9agsaSQzIKm0p+hgFGkNxIJhJXigg= Received: by 10.102.174.3 with SMTP id w3mr792681mue.16.1266761815581; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:16:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id n7sm10549063mue.21.2010.02.21.06.16.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 21 Feb 2010 06:16:54 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] reiser4 Vs reiserfs for / on new Gentoo isntallation Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:16:51 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.12r4; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <358eca8f1002210556x443d7e33h6e4305b653d2c81d@mail.gmail.com> <201002211503.40457.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <358eca8f1002210610x38eb865avff144afec304db70@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <358eca8f1002210610x38eb865avff144afec304db70@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-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002211516.52151.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 1c310701-7e6c-4fd1-ae93-41b6cacb9c16 X-Archives-Hash: 4211cdb3dfb9d54db80e33e162d0be0e On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: > On 21 February 2010 14:03, Volker Armin Hemmann > > wrote: > > On Sonntag 21 Februar 2010, Mick wrote: > >> I know that some of you have been using reiser4 for some years now. > >> How does it compare in performance and reliability in terms to > >> reiserfs and xfs? > > > > they don't even come close in performance. XFS sucks with files who are > > not multi megabyte in size. > > > >> A few years ago I remember there were problems compiling or running > >> some applications/libraries on reiser4 - are these problems now over? > >> Any gotchas? > > > > a loooong time ago there was a bug when compiling kde and without > > compression. Fixed shortly afterwards, never had a problem again. > > Thanks Volker for a prompt reply. Is reiser4 still being developed, > or is Linux now moving towards ext4? linux is moving toward btrfs. ext4 is just a stop gap measure. One that is only a good alternative if you don't care about your data. btw, the one point that kept resier4 out was 'layer violations'. Interesstingly btrfs is nothing but a huge 'violation' ... And yes, Edward is still working on it.