Thierry Vignaud wrote:
>
> Chmouel Boudjnah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Is there any chance the ext3 code could be integrated into Mandrake's
> > > kernels ? ReiserFS doesn't seem to be as stable as it is claimed,
> >
> > What is your definition of not stable ?
Well I'll mess in the discussion if you don't mind. Reiser looks quite
tough for now. However it has not a wide distribution as ext2. Besides,
those who are making it clearly state that there are problems. And I
believe they have good reasons to say it. They are the most interested
party in this thing. Personally, I had no problems with Reiser's
partitions, but I can't say the same of the tools. Things there are
still green somehow. If you get a crash you may get some trouble to get
things back. So in terms of stability Reiser is still under question.
You may use it on a /usr that you don't mind to reinstall. But, at the
moment, I would not risk to store critical information in such
partitions.
> >
> > > and being able to remount an ext3 fs as an ext2 fs is a very
> > > valuable advantage. Are there some difficulties providing ext3 with
> > > next Mandrake's kernels (I remember a year ago there were conflicts
> > > beetwen ReiserFS and ext3 but I guess ReiserFS code has been cleaned
> > > since that time) ?
> >
> > Actually i don't plan to integrate the ext3 in our kernel not is
> > stable or not but ReiserFS is much more tested, work great on server
> > and we didn't have any bug reports. We still keep our eyes on the
> > Journalised FS like Ext3, JFS, XFS for the future.
>
> what's more, ext3 only exists for 2.2.x for the moment (it would take
> some time to port it to 2.4.x).
> At least, jfs exists for both 2.2.x and 2.4.0-testX.
> and ext3 is half as slow as ext2 ... on 2.2.x, reiserfs is faster than ext2
> (they've quite the same speed on 2.4.0-testX)
>
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