[ale] ramblings of a rpm session from hell

[Scott Castaline]

It's a shame, but I kinda figured that would possibly be the reason why
some distros may shy away from supporting Rv3 never mind 4. I think that
I was actually using Rv3 in Ubuntu. There is definetly a difference
between Rv3 and ext3. Even with my grandson's pushing power buttons, my
systems with Rfs would recover very nicely and swiftly. I have just had
2 back 2 back losses of power with FC6 ext3 FS and the second one did my
~/ in with corruption. This is something I am not used to since I got
away from the other OS except of course my wife's pc is M$ Win2K and I
get to see that quite often on hers.


On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 21:15 -0500, Jeff Hubbs wrote:
> 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. 
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