From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Hans Reiser Subject: Re: has anyone installed SuSE 10.0 on reiser4? Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:24:01 -0700 Message-ID: <435EB081.2020405@namesys.com> References: <435E75AC.8090500@namesys.com> <200510251658.48802.rjoffe@yahoo.com> <435EA8A9.4090807@slaphack.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: <435EA8A9.4090807@slaphack.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Masover Cc: Ron Joffe , reiserfs-list@namesys.com David Masover wrote: > Ron Joffe wrote: > >> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 14:13, Hans Reiser wrote: >> >>> If yes, what steps did you take to do it? >> >> >> >> 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. > > > > > 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.