Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3)

Yury Umanets
2003-07-26T07:08:16Z

On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 05:08, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Fre, 2003-07-25 um 16.39 schrieb Yury Umanets:
>
> > Reiser4 has plugin-based architecture. So, anybody is able to write new
> > block allocator plugin.
>
> Cool.

>
> > Speaking about possible embedded usage... What kind of embedded devices
> > do you mean. Reiser4 driver is big enough in size for some of them (for
> > instance, for mine MPIO MP3 player :))
>
> I'm talking about pretty standard ix86 hardware which has embedded like
> properties such as fanless and motorless use, hardware watchdog, flash
> memory but only few of the typical limitations like restricted memory
> (we are using 256 or 512 MB), slow CPU, few connectors.

>
> So basically we do have pretty powerful hardware with huge storage and
> memory and now need a FS which is fast and reliable even on flash
> memory. JFFS2 is nice but way too slow once one has bigger sizes.

I think this is more then enough for running reiser4. Reiser4 is a linux
filesystem first of all, and linux is able to be ran on even worse
hardware then you have.

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