On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 04:49:15PM -0500, A. Costa wrote: > Note: for some reason most of the following lay neglected in my > Draft folder for a few months. > > On Fri, 9 Sep 2005 08:10:42 +0200 > Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, reiserfs is a nice FS to have around when you want some data to > > disappear without a trace :) > > Eek, hope you're not speaking from experience. Still, I admire the > thought behind Reiser4, it has some interesting ideas.
Nope, worse, from doing user support to some guys it happened too :) > > The problem is that libparted use the non-official libreiser thingy, and > > need > > to be switched to the official one, nobody volunteered to do the work > > though, > > maybe you do ? > > It'd be difficult, sorry -- I'm not a maintainer, and don't know > enough yet about the unofficial libreiser package to know what needs > doing. I guess most people are in the same case, a bit lost about this whole reiser mess. A read of the parted mailing list archive (we do have an archive, right ?) > > Well, apart from the above, libreiserfs has been orphaned since ages. > Obviously no maintainer wants to support an utterly dead thing, but > it's unclear that the reiserfs family of stuff is no more. For example: > > % zcat /usr/share/doc/reiser4progs/changelog.Debian.gz | head -n 5 > reiser4progs (1.0.5-1) unstable; urgency=low > > * New upstream release. > > -- Domenico Andreoli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thu, 18 Aug 2005 13:00:20 > +0200 Ah, nice, my knowledge may be obsolet then. > > > ...and the info page mentions 'reiserfs' dozens of times. And a lot of > > > Debian users, (and Debian variants or offshoots), use reiser, -- for > > > example 'reiserfs' is one of the default file systems on this 'Mepis' > > > LiveCD** I have, etc. etc. > > > > Sure, they store everything on the liveCD; and nothing vital on the > > filesystem > > :) Reiserfs used to be popular back then, when there where scarce > > alternatives, but i doubt there is a single distro making it default now > > that > > we have ext3. > > An inductive and therefore not so reliable argument about > reliability: 'Mepis' is a popular liveCD, so its busy user forums > should have several horror stories about reiserfs, if that Well, as said, my main experience is on powerpc, and mirrored by many of the important powerpc porters, and i don't think Mepis is ported to powerpc, so ... Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
