From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA2B7C433F5 for ; Thu, 19 May 2022 09:21:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S235981AbiESJVL (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2022 05:21:11 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:54008 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S236051AbiESJUz (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 May 2022 05:20:55 -0400 Received: from vulcan.natalenko.name (vulcan.natalenko.name [104.207.131.136]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 164F663DE for ; Thu, 19 May 2022 02:20:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from spock.localnet (unknown [83.148.33.151]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by vulcan.natalenko.name (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0B898EEFA90; Thu, 19 May 2022 11:20:48 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=natalenko.name; s=dkim-20170712; t=1652952048; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=IEpxxtS6dFfW2hXHPdJoyZva/Nsb9sB2MQUZZ8l7jNQ=; b=jjyGEN/2eo0tkC8gh4Uv4eViRmIwRBOkkq7tOSpJmJZnIfec0nx1ugl+MsNsuxLQ0TATA+ e4I7m6NXv0IGWkHkh1yVRrc5S1B/WcrYeBsMWoLCDa0Ku955GNDG4yMDX9ka59LexSb7SG Xnzo96SgzCWHbuGF1W5o5gEqV66FNIg= From: Oleksandr Natalenko To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: =?utf-8?B?TWljaGHFgg==?= Dec , reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org, Jan Kara Subject: Re: Alternatives after removal of ReiserFS Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 11:20:24 +0200 Message-ID: <2631780.mvXUDI8C0e@natalenko.name> In-Reply-To: <54db8933-f2f3-d31a-c71f-860285e25abf@gmail.com> References: <54db8933-f2f3-d31a-c71f-860285e25abf@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello. On st=C5=99eda 18. kv=C4=9Btna 2022 14:10:25 CEST Micha=C5=82 Dec wrote: > Does the Linux kernel actually offer any alternatives to users whose use= =20 > cases are satisfied by ReiserFS? These users will probably be stuck with= =20 > a much older kernel once ReiserFS is completely removed. I'm one of=20 > those users and I use ReiserFS to keep around large quantities of small=20 > files and quite ironically these are copies of the Linux kernel. I keep=20 > around 2, maybe 3 separate kernel trees to make sure the kernels I have=20 > on my devices can be rebuilt at any time. I think the advantage of using reiserfs for small files faded away over tim= e and became an old tale that is being passed from one generation to anothe= r without any modern adequate testing. XFS should serve you well. =2D-=20 Oleksandr Natalenko (post-factum)