From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Oleksandr Natalenko Subject: Re: Alternatives after removal of ReiserFS Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 11:20:24 +0200 Message-ID: <2631780.mvXUDI8C0e@natalenko.name> References: <54db8933-f2f3-d31a-c71f-860285e25abf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=natalenko.name; s=dkim-20170712; t=1652952048; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=IEpxxtS6dFfW2hXHPdJoyZva/Nsb9sB2MQUZZ8l7jNQ=; b=jjyGEN/2eo0tkC8gh4Uv4eViRmIwRBOkkq7tOSpJmJZnIfec0nx1ugl+MsNsuxLQ0TATA+ e4I7m6NXv0IGWkHkh1yVRrc5S1B/WcrYeBsMWoLCDa0Ku955GNDG4yMDX9ka59LexSb7SG Xnzo96SgzCWHbuGF1W5o5gEqV66FNIg= In-Reply-To: <54db8933-f2f3-d31a-c71f-860285e25abf@gmail.com> List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: =?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgg==?= Dec , reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara Hello. On st=C5=99eda 18. kv=C4=9Btna 2022 14:10:25 CEST Micha=C5=82 Dec wrote: > Does the Linux kernel actually offer any alternatives to users whose use= =20 > cases are satisfied by ReiserFS? These users will probably be stuck with= =20 > a much older kernel once ReiserFS is completely removed. I'm one of=20 > those users and I use ReiserFS to keep around large quantities of small=20 > files and quite ironically these are copies of the Linux kernel. I keep=20 > around 2, maybe 3 separate kernel trees to make sure the kernels I have=20 > on my devices can be rebuilt at any time. I think the advantage of using reiserfs for small files faded away over tim= e and became an old tale that is being passed from one generation to anothe= r without any modern adequate testing. XFS should serve you well. =2D-=20 Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)