Re: the ' 'official' point of view' expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion

gmu 2k6
2006-07-27T13:42:26Z

On 7/27/06, Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> wrote:
> Luigi Genoni <genoni@sns.it> wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > Anyway you have a datum.
> > Some people need reiser4, period.
>
> Nope. Some people run kernels that include reiser4. That is all you can
> infer, and that I knew beforehand. They are at least 35, and that I'd have
> guessed in any case.

35.5 as I'm testing it here on my workstation and it seems to be
faster when you test some things involving many copies of large
multi-level sourcetree directories each 3 to 6GiB big in size.
2.6.18-rc2-mm1 with Reiser4 looks ok so far and I had no sync() OOPS
like the last time with one -mm revision.

speed tells us nothing about reliability of course, but compared to
ext3 with dir_index,sparse_super Reiser4 seems to handle "du -sh" and
"rm -r" much faster and without eating all of the CPU cycles as it
finishes quicker although Reiser4 was meant to be CPU-heavy compared
to ext*/reiserfs3.