On Thu, 30 Dec 2004, Hans Reiser wrote: > Fixing hash collisions in V3 to do them the way V4 does them would > create more bugs and user disruption than the current bug we have all > lived with for 5 years until now. If someone thinks it is a small > change to fix it, send me a patch. Better by far to fix bugs in V4, > which is pretty stable these days.
Better to fix a known bug than create a file system vacuum before V4 is really stable. Anyways, I don't care any more, I'm phasing out ReiserFS v3 and have no plans to try V4 before 2006. -- Matthias Andree