Luca Barbato wrote: >Kumba wrote: > > > >>I'm just stating this, because once reiserfs4 goes mainline (I believe >>it's in -mm currently), we are bound to have users hitting various bumps >>and ruts in the road using it, and if they file bugs to our bugzilla >>that aren't related to patches we produce, then they'll likely wind up >>closed as invalid and such. This saves the users time, and may get them >>the answers they seek (or at least a resolution of some kind). It also >>saves our bug-wranglers time by now having to deal with more invalid bugs. >> >> >> > >We can always patch the problem in the g-s ^^ > >Given reiserfs4 is around for enough time and lots of brave users tested >it, it MAY be not so unstable. (still I like jfs and xfs more, and I use >them just for transient data (large video and image processing tests and >so on)) > > > As a ppc64 arch and can officially state that reiser4fs is very unstable under ppc64 as of the last time I checked, which was some where in the 2.6.12rc cycle plus mm patch.
That said, we're not RedHat. We ship as MANY features as we can and let the user decide. I agree that it is valuable to get reiser4 testing done up front. Eventually - some people will use it. Last I checked "I think $FOO is stupid" wasn't a valid closure code in bugzilla ;-) -- Omkhar Arasaratnam - Gentoo PPC64 Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://dev.gentoo.org/~omkhar Gentoo Linux / PPC64 Linux: http://ppc64.gentoo.org -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
