From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Mason Subject: Re: http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.08.03-internal.testing/ Date: Wed, 04 Aug 2004 09:49:59 -0400 Message-ID: <1091627399.4791.22.camel@watt.suse.com> References: <200406150022.34578.vitaly@namesys.com> <200408031750.00291.vitaly@namesys.com> <20040803135805.GK1284@nysv.org> <200408031819.51600.vitaly@namesys.com> <4110A38A.7040807@namesys.com> <20040804095513.GL1284@nysv.org> <20040804144144.2f5fe7b3@philou.gramoulle.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <20040804144144.2f5fe7b3@philou.gramoulle.local> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: Philippe =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Gramoull=E9?= Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 08:41, Philippe Gramoull=E9 wrote: > Hello, >=20 > On Wed, 4 Aug 2004 12:55:13 +0300 > mjt@nysv.org (Markus T=F6rnqvist) wrote: >=20 > | >These blocks refers to blocks that were used by files and are now ba= ckup=20 > | >super blocks? These blocks could be critical database files, etc.? > |=20 > | Seems to me like yes, but Reiser4 hasn't launched yet officially, so > | I somehow doubt people will have anything too critical on Reiser4. > |=20 > | I'm at least preparing myself to take backups of everything. >=20 >=20 > I completely agree. I really don't mind having another tens of format dis= k change, if it make things better > faster, or cleaner. If people currently use reiser4 in production for mis= sion critical applications, without any backups, > well..., let's say that they had a bet and they lost :) >=20 > As Markus said, Reiser4 hasn't been officially released, so i'm all for f= ormat 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.=20 Whatever gets into the kernel you'll be stuck with ;-) -chris