Re: Reiser4. BEST FILESYSTEM EVER.

["David H. Lynch Jr" <dhlii@comcast.net>]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> If the compelling reason is that it needs a test, I'd say its not ready.

    Can you please elaborate ? I am not sure I understand what you are
arguing ?

    Despite his substantially less than polite rhetoric, I have read
Hans's post from months if not years ago.
    Aside from the pissing contests - which where not entirely one
sided, I actually beleive that Hans made a reasonable case
    that Reiser4 had gone about as far as it could reasonably go with
regard to testing, robustness, ... without the broader base of
    use that even an experimental filesystem in distribution tree would get.

    I for one would atleast play with it if it were in the distribution
tree.
    As far as I could tell pretty much everything else that was demanded
Hans eventually caved and provided - albeit with much pissing and moaning,
    and holy than thou rhetoric.

    The argument that anything that needs testing can't get into the
distribution tree's is specious. There is alot of poorly tested crap in
the distribution trees.
    But separately, there is the issue of scale. Namesys claims that
they have no currently know bugs, faults ... - with their base of
internal and external users.
    I would fully expect new failures to crop up with any filesystem,
driver, ... moving  up an order of magnitude in users.
 
    Are you going to subject all filesystems and drivers to the same
high standards you are placing on Reiser4 ? If so then we need to strip
the distribution tree now.
   
    I am not looking to defend Hans - he is likely to be in jail and no
longer a factor for a long time. Nor am I looking to make or support
claims for Reiser4.
    But I am asking - why we can not get past the bad blood, rhetoric,
and zealotry -which to my eyes has not been all one sided.
    I am NOT looking for a technical explanation of all the relative
merits and demerits of Reiser4.
    I do not care for arguments about whether it compresses 0's well, or
that tail combining is a bad thing. They may have merit, but there is
not a filesystem
    that is going to be all things to all people. Whether Reiser4 is a
small niche filesystem or a significant general use one, is a decision
that should be reached
    by its performance in practice, not it rhetoric. Regardless, even as
a niche filesystem, I beleive at this point it merits inclusion.
   
   




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