On Iau, 2005-06-23 at 23:04, David Masover wrote: > > What for? It works just fine as it stands, AFAICS. > > So does DOS. Do you use DOS? I don't even use DOS to run DOS programs.
False argument. So does the pen, so do hinges on doors. Do you still have hinges on your doors - probably. > "Ain't broke" is the battle cry of stagnation. Its also the battle cry of everyone over the age of 20 who also has a real job to do 8) > But, there are some things Reiser does better and faster than ext3, even > if you don't count file-as-directory and other toys. There's nothing > ext3 does better than Reiser, unless you count the compatibility with > random bootloaders and low-level tools. Certainly compared with reiser3 you've missed a few out including resilience to disk errors (nearly nil on reiser3), and SMP scaling. > You know how many I've had thrashed on Reiser4? Two. The first one was > with a VERY early alpha/beta, and the second one was when I dropped a > laptop and the disk failed. Entirely or bad blocks ? The latter should have a minimal cost on a well designed fs. > Duplication of effort. With plugins, we can optimize the upper layers > of ALL filesystems, regardless of the lower layers, in such a way that In which case the features belong in the VFS as all those with experience and kernel contributions have been arguing.
