Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution

[jp <jp.guillemin@free.fr>]

Peter Foldiak wrote:
> Marcel (Hilzinger),
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> Did you write this Linux Magazine article? Could you give some details on what 
> the problem was?
>
> Peter
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> On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:34, Hans Reiser wrote:
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>> There are so little details that it is hard to know what the problem
>> they had was.  It does sound though like we need to smooth out the
>> commits.  We have deferred that for a while.  I know how we should do
>> it, we just need to do it.  Sigh, there are so many things like
>> that.....  Probably fsync should be optimized first....
>>
>> Hans
>>
>> Peter Foldiak wrote:
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>>> The preview of the April (!?!) 2006 issue of Linux Magazine has an article
>>> http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/65/Super_Underground_Desktop.pdf
>>> saying that Reiser4 is the root filesystem for the distribution
>>> "Underground Desktop"
>>> http://www.ludos.org/
>>> but says "it failed to live up to the expectations we had for Reiser4",
>>> blaming Reiser4 for some performance problems. Not much detail is given.
>>>       
Zenwalk Linux provides Reiser4 as one of it's fs available for any 
partition since 05/2005 (Zenwalk actually supports ext2, ext3, Reiser3, 
Reiser4 and XFS). Reiser4 is in my experience the faster journalized 
fs,  XFS comes second.
>>> It also says that "Grub does not support Reiser4", so LILO is used. (Is
>>> that true?)
>>>       
I would rather say that Grub1 (stable) is not really supported anymore, 
and Grub2 is not finished yet. Grub1 doesn't support Reiser4 until 
patched with the patch available on Namesys repository . Lately I tried 
Grub + reiser4 patch with Vanilla 2.6.15.2 : it's not stable.
Lilo is usually better than Grub in most situations, it's always 
actively supported, and supports Reiser4 out of the box.
>>> Do you know of any other distributions that comes with Reiser4 by default
>>> root file system?
>>>       
Yes, Zenwalk : a simple, yet modern OS ;)
>>> Peter
>>>       
Jean-Philippe
Zenwalk.org
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