Hello On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 00:44, Markus TЖrnqvist wrote: > Hi > > I was thinking about some potential problems. > > Actually, Nikita and I had a discussion about the issues with > cross-architecture compatibility. It would apparently not be easy to > do, because block size equals page size in Reiser4. > yes, now moving a hard drive with reiser4 between systems with different page size is impossible.
> Is this common with other file systems? no > I didn't get to ask that > question so to get an answer :) > > Just when stuff like FireWire and USB hard drives are getting popular > and no-one should buy a PC laptop, this may become an issue for > PPC Linux users... > > Then, the issues with small and large keys. Is there any need for two > sizes? Isn't it hazardous that some peoples' systems may cease to > function because of that? It seems larger keys are far superior... > Both large and small keys should be supported such that user does not have to care of compile option It was made compile option because there was a desire to try it as fast as possible. > Any performance issues, anything? > > Thanks!