Re: http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.08.03-internal.testing/

[Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>]

On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 08:41, Philippe Gramoullé wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:55:13 +0300
> mjt@nysv.org (Markus Törnqvist) wrote:
> 
>   | >These blocks refers to blocks that were used by files and are now backup 
>   | >super blocks?  These blocks could be critical database files, etc.?
>   | 
>   | Seems to me like yes, but Reiser4 hasn't launched yet officially, so
>   | I somehow doubt people will have anything too critical on Reiser4.
>   | 
>   | I'm at least preparing myself to take backups of everything.
> 
> 
> I completely agree. I really don't mind having another tens of format disk change, if it make things better
> faster, or cleaner. If people currently use reiser4 in production for mission critical applications, without any backups,
> well..., let's say that they had a bet and they lost :)
> 
> As Markus said, Reiser4 hasn't been officially released, so i'm all for format disk change if it improves things in the end
> and even if few people might get burnt with that.

If it provides some significant benefit, make the format change now. 
Whatever gets into the kernel you'll be stuck with ;-)

-chris