From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tomasz Chmielewski Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 10:53:58 +0200 Message-ID: <432D2B26.1070909@mch.one.pl> References: <432AFB44.9060707@namesys.com> <200509171356.14497.vda@ilport.com.ua> <200509171415.50454.vda@ilport.com.ua> <200509180934.50789.chriswhite@gentoo.org> <194f625505091801231f54980@mail.gmail.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: <194f625505091801231f54980@mail.gmail.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: linuxhippy@gmail.com Cc: reiserfs-list@namesys.com Clemens Eisserer schrieb: > The longer I read discussions about the inclusion of reiser4 into the > kernel the more I think the whole discussion has to do with personal > oppinions, not with technical problems or limitations that should be > adressed. > Anybody who is a ext3 fan seems to find his own reasons why reaiser4 > should stay away - thats real competition - could be fud-people payed > by redhat how seem to force anybody to use ext3 (thanks for fc4 > bullshit) ;-) > I have heard so many reasons why reiser4 should not be in kernel, > however nobody seems to think about why it should be included. Its the > only really activly developed linux vs with features most (all) other > fs lack and it has a great ability for improvements through plugins. compression plugin would save me (not only me I believe) lots of time and a couple of disks... and the only other Linux fs with write mode that has compression is patched ext2 (which is also not included in the kernel, and has some problems) - well, there is also jffs2 with limits of 4 GB partition, so not really useful for storing bigger amounts of data. I actually even considered using NTFS on Linux servers, with some commercial product providing NTFS with all features (write, compression etc.) - crazy, isn't it? -- Tomek http://wpkg.org Software deployment and upgrades with Samba