From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: Furure of ReiserfsV3? Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 17:12:13 +0300 Message-ID: <3F9FCABD.4010104@namesys.com> References: <3F9FC877.9000903@gmx.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <3F9FC877.9000903@gmx.net> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Christian Mayrhuber Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Christian Mayrhuber wrote: > Hi, > > if someone looks at the feature matrix of the major filesystems in > kernel 2.6.0 it tells you the following: > > FS data ordered EA ACL Quota sec. labels ext. journal > ====================================================================== > ext2 N Y Y Y Y N > ext3 Y Y Y Y Y Y > xfs N N Y Y N Y > jfs N N Y ? N Y > reiserfs N N N Y N Y > (reiserfs) Y* Y** Y** Y N Y > > * data logging patches by Chris Mason (SuSE) > ** EA/ACL patches by Jeff Mahoney (SuSE) > > The current feature situation does not look great for reiserfs. > From my point of view the latest data logging patches seem to behave > very solid and are desireable to have in 2.6.x. > I have no experience with the EA/ACL patches from Jeff Mahoney, but > SuSE uses them for a long time. We got bug reports for EA/ACLs. I don't know what the status is of the fixes for them because we don't support them. SUSE does. > > What can be expected to be seen in reiserfs V3 before reiser4's big > time? Or has reiserfs V3 entered a hard feature freeze. V3 is in feature freeze. Use it, it won't break as a result of a new feature being added to it next month. The data logging patches are probably the last significant change that will go into the vanilla kernel (and I would have preferred that they go in quite some time ago but.....) New features are in V4. It will be stable "real soon now". ;-) -- Hans