On Sunday 04 September 2005 01:35 pm, Ben Rockwood wrote: > The thread got off topic, the only real point I cared to make was that > if ReiserFS was made avalible for OpenSolaris it would be pretty kool, > reguardless of any opinions on the project of the filesystem itself. > The more the merrier.
It probably would be nice to have ability to read ReiserFS, although I cringe at the folks that use it. I'm not sure I have a lot to compare, but when I met Hans and talked with him, my first impression was that he was still having flashbacks from the 60s. It left me with the question of wether I would trust my data to someone that couldn't seem to remember what had happened several weeks ago, and more importantly specifics about some of the code. Hans doesn't work on it anymore and it seems to be done mostly in Russia, if I'm not mistaken. In contrast, Ted Tso (author of ext3, who I worked with at VA Linux Systems) could speak intelligently about ext3, and seems more creditable than Hans. I rather like the fact that ext3 can exist on top of ext2, not a bad decision, IMO. Lastly I compare Jeff Bonwick to both of them, and Jeff is in a completely different space than either of the previous mentioned, and it makes me glad that Jeff took on ZFS, because I feel that data integrity is one of the most important aspects of computing. Jeff is truely doing something that is a magnitude above the other solutions. I would never run any of my systems on ReiserFS, but it *IS* popular and could be useful to have support, even if READ_ONLY. ext2 falls in this camp also, as does ext3 which sits on top. We must exists with other filesystems. I have always felt it is partially Sun's job to educate folks, and to teach them why Solaris is the way it is, and why it is better. Traditionally, Solaris would not allow some willy-nilly project such as ReiserFS to exist, but Hans was able to push that upon the Linux communities and gather grant money to work on it, because nothing else existed. To date the best solution to using various data formats is NFS, and Solaris seems to have the best implimentation of it, IMO (no surprise, it's Sun's technology;-). It does require the native host to run though, so can only be used in a network environment. Quite honestly, I feel safest using ReiserFS or ext3 through NFS, since that way I don't have to run any of that stuff native on Solaris.;-) There is a side of me that dreads the thought of having either ReiserFS or ext2/3 running natively on Solaris, because I just don't think they meet the quality standard that Solaris has been able to set to date. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
