From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Mayrhuber Subject: Re: Furure of ReiserfsV3? Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 15:31:28 +0100 Message-ID: <3F9FCF40.8060807@gmx.net> References: <3F9FC877.9000903@gmx.net> <1067436839.1632.253.camel@tiny.suse.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <1067436839.1632.253.camel@tiny.suse.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com 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