From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 16:00:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 16:00:42 -0400 Received: from idiom.com ([216.240.32.1]:28426 "EHLO idiom.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 May 2001 16:00:30 -0400 Message-ID: <3AF5C81E.C52CF4F2@namesys.com> Date: Sun, 06 May 2001 14:54:38 -0700 From: Hans Reiser X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.17-14cl i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: ReiserFS seems to be stable as of 2.4.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Bug reports that are hardware failures masquerading as reiserfs bugs dominate our mailing list. We also get bug reports from users with versions that are prior to 2.4.4. We are now working on making the code more likely to identify a hardware failure as a hardware failure (without killing performance, which means there are many things we can do but we can't fully cure that problem). fsck is the one non-solid piece of our code, and that has greatly improved and will hopefully be solid by June 1. Two persons are working on it full-time. We have one bugfix in reiserfs that is not yet in the main kernel, mainly because it is a deep bugfix that we are being careful with so that it does not add more bugs. One user only so far has hit that bug. We have some new code that we are saving for 2.5.1, to relocate, resize, and generally tune the journal, and to mark blocks bad for users that need to do that for long enough to get a new disk drive (if you see bad blocks, usually your drive is no longer worth trusting your home directory to.) We will improve performance throughout 2.5, with a new block allocator and a journal tuning and relocation patch, being the most important changes likely to happen soon. All in all, things look good for starting work on reiser4 on June 1.:) Hans