On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 16:15 -0700, Anthony Gorecki wrote: > On Friday, June 24, 2005 10:23 am, Andrew Watson wrote: > > Is it worth it in terms of performence and reliability? > > also, is it safe to run all partitions including / on reiser4. > > Reiser4 does not presently work with AMD64 architectures, so unless you want > to lose your data, don't use it on an AMD64. If you want a vanilla kernel > that supports Reiser4, you'll need to wait until version 2.6.13 is released.
Or later, Andrew is just considering it and has asked Hans Reiser to remove the fs module loading stuff as he believes that it should be in the VFS layer and not the FS layer. > I'm considering using Reiser4 for my own desktop machine, in addition to a > pair of servers; I am, however, still fairly dubious about the author's > grounding in sane filesystem design. While Reiser4 as it is seems to be > usable, its future development plans (such as they are) concern me. I believe that Hans, the author of Reiserfs, has a firm understanding of FS design. I also believe that he is pushing it into areas that no one ever considered before and some of those might be dangerous to your data. Directories as files is definitely different from most of the other FS's but when he gets modules going it is going to be very cool and very scary. Cool when you can plugin whatever encryption module you want and scary because if there is a hiccup anywhere your data might never be recoverable. > Beware of Ciaran. Yes, Ciaran loves to laugh at people that lose their data on that particular FS. ;-) If a file-system became corrupt and the world was going to end if it could not be recovered he would, in his best Nelson for the Simpsons voice, probably say, "Ha, ha. Let the world end!" I highly suggest backups for the adventurous. -- Tres -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
