Re: has anyone installed SuSE 10.0 on reiser4?

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

David Masover wrote:

> Ron Joffe wrote:
>
>> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:13, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>>> If yes, what steps did you take to do it?
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>> Not quite there yet, but would like to test it out.
>>
>> Hans, could you give a status of Reiser4. I have seen allot of
>> different issues on the maillist, but not a "status" of where the
>> overall project stands.
>
>
> Status:  Released, for awhile now.
>
> Not for mission-critical apps, as it hasn't been hammered by millions
> of users for a couple of years the way Reiser3 and ext3 have.
>
> Missing a few features, some due to time constraints, some due to
> attempts to get into the mainstream kernel.  Probably all of them will
> get in eventually, it will just take some time.
>
> No idea on kernel inclusion progress.  I've been out of the loop on
> that for some time, due to a fried network card in my mailserver and a
> general lack of interest.
>
> On-disk format is stable, or if it's not, it's backwards-compatible,
> because I haven't formatted for months.
>
> Main performance issues are fsync and the lack of a repacker.
>
> Hans (and others), correct me if I'm wrong about any of that.
>
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> For my purposes, it's stable enough for me to use for all of my FSes,
> except NTFS for Windows and HFS+ for OS X.  The biggest problem I've
> ever had since release was related to both hardware and my own
> stupidity, and the undelete feature got me back on my feet pretty
> quickly.  I think the net loss was my copy of Star Wars.
>
>
David is accurate.