Re: reiser4 plugins

Hans Reiser
2004-08-28T21:41:12Z

I think it is reasonable to make the -nopseudos (turns off the metafiles
) mount option mandatory, until the bugs are resolved.

Our testing did not find these metafile/VFS bugs because of the reason
for all our bugs, we screwed up.

There is a distinct difference between some persons and I, which is that
some think all of reiser4 should be excluded until metafiles are
implemented by VFS some long time from now, and I, in that I merely
think buggy optional features should be turned off until they are
fixed. I, being renowned for my paranoia and asininity as I am, think
these persons find it convenient as an excuse to keep us from competing,
and I think that if we were slower there would be less hassle every time
we try to get into the kernel.

While reiser4 has some significant roughnesses remaining in its
performance, I think the average user would find it performs better than
other filesystems, and is stable enough for, say, a laptop, and I
predict that by the time we have it stable enough for mission critical
servers, all the roughness in various important corner cases will be
gone.

Persons benchmarking it with tarballs, please be sure to use tarballs
created on reiser4, not ext2 tarballs, readdir order matters a lot for
sorted directory filesystems.

Hans