Re: Furure of ReiserfsV3?

[Christian Mayrhuber <christian.mayrhuber@osiris.at>]

Thomas Graham wrote:
>>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
>>
>>
> 
> 
> huh ?! where could I get the suse patches ?!
> anyone could point out an address to download please ? Thanks.

Kernel 2.4:
Logging + Quota ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/mason/patches/data-logging
EA/ACL for 2.4 http://acl.bestbits.at
EA/ACL for reiserfs ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/jeffm/reiserfs/aclea

or use the SuSE/UnitedLinux Kernel 
ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/kernel/UnitedLinux/
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