Alan Cox wrote: > SMP scaling.
Reiser4 should do much better at this, as it was designed for it. I wish we had a nice hunking multiprocessor to verify that and work through the inevitable unintended sources of bottlenecks though. > > >>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. > > So you fundamentally reject the prototype it in one fs and then abstract it to others development model?