[ale] ramblings of a rpm session from hell

[Jeff Hubbs]

Scott Castaline wrote:
> I've also noticed that FC tends to discourage using Reiserfs, and I'm
> not sure why. Any thoughts on that?
ReiserFS version 3 is an interesting and well-regarded filesystem with
minor issues.  But, version 4 is less well-regarded and the Gentoo
developers warn *strongly* against it for AMD64, which casts not
unreasonable aspersions upon its 32-bit port. 

This would be no huge big deal, except for Hans Reiser's very serious
legal problems (i.e., charged with murder), meaning that getting
ReiserFS v4 up to the level of ext3, XFS, and JFS is a rather faraway
dream, and to the extent that Rv4 was supposed to address problems in
Rv3, well, the implication is that ReiserFS is end-of-lifed for all
practical purposes, albeit prematurely.