From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jp Subject: Re: Reiser4 default in Underground Dekstop distribution Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 20:21:36 +0100 Message-ID: <4401FFC0.20900@free.fr> References: <200602251203.09958.Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> <4401E68E.8060205@namesys.com> <200602261834.14571.Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: list-help: list-unsubscribe: list-post: Errors-To: flx@namesys.com In-Reply-To: <200602261834.14571.Peter.Foldiak@st-andrews.ac.uk> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Peter Foldiak Cc: Marcel Hilzinger , reiserfs-list@namesys.com, Hans Reiser Peter Foldiak wrote: > Marcel (Hilzinger), > > Did you write this Linux Magazine article? Could you give some details on what > the problem was? > > Peter > > On Sunday 26 February 2006 17:34, Hans Reiser wrote: > >> 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: >> >>> 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 > > >