Re: State of the Reiser4 FS

[Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>]

Avuton Olrich wrote:

>On 3/15/06, Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com> wrote:
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>>Avuton Olrich wrote:
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>>>I just saw a thread on the LKML a minute ago asking about the state of
>>>getting the patch into vanilla linux. I read Andrew Morton's post
>>>about a month ago stating that it could happen soon, but was unlikely
>>>due to there not actually being a need for it to go into mainline (no
>>>major distro default, etc...).
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>>Can you supply a reference to this post?  The only distro which is not
>>influenced by performance numbers when selecting a filesystem is RedHat,
>>and most of the rest are just waiting to be sure that politics will not
>>kill reiser4 inclusion.  I am sure I can come up with a "we will support
>>it if you let it in" petition of distros if such a silliness is needed.
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>I was refering to this post:
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=113775878722100&w=2
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>Thanks for all the answers
>--
>avuton
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Oh, well, the overall tone of that email is not all that negative.

We will work on the 4k at a time issue, overcome that issue technically,
and then after that is resolved deal with generating desire for a
filesystem that is 2x (reiser4.0) to 4x (4.1alpha with compression) faster.