Re: Furure of ReiserfsV3?

[Christian Mayrhuber <christian.mayrhuber@gmx.net>]

Chris Mason wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:02, 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.
>>
>>What can be expected to be seen in reiserfs V3 before reiser4's big 
>>time? Or has reiserfs V3 entered a hard feature freeze.
> 
> 
> SuSE is actively porting all of this.  Even though I've been saying this
> for over a year now, it really is happening ;-)  Basically as we migrate
> to 2.6 for our products, we'll be pulling in all the features we added
> during the 2.4 kernels.
> 
> v3 has a lot of users, so we've no intention of leaving them behind in
> the 2.6 series kernels.
> 
> -chris
> 
> 

Short summary of Hans and Chris Mason:

FS        data ordered   EA   ACL   Quota   sec. labels   ext. journal
======================================================================
reiserfs         Y       N     N      Y         N            Y
reiserfs_suse    Y       Y     Y      Y         N            Y

which is, IMHO, pretty good.
Great work developers!
-- 
lg, Chris