Re: I oppose Chris and Jeff's patch to add an unnecessary additional namespace to ReiserFS

David Masover
2004-04-30T16:17:47Z

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| Christoph Hellwig wrote:
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|>> Did you notice that V4 blows XFS and ReiserFS V3 away in
|>> benchmarks? That is what I have been doing for 3 years....
|>>
|>> See www.namesys.com for details.
|>>
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|>
|> see www.microsoft.com why Windows is much better than Linux. Yeah,
|> thanks.
|>
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| Ask the users whether their laptops, etc., seem to go a lot faster with
| V4. They seem to be pretty happy with it.

With the speed, yes. With the stability, no. I use it on my desktop
now, as that's for games, and use xfs on cryptoloop for my laptop. I
hope to replace that with reiser4 and some crypto plugin someday. I'll
follow this up with the specific problems in a bit.

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| V4 fixed all of V3's serious performance flaws, and totally obsoletes
| it. I am very happy with it.
|

In fact, regarding the whole "innovation" thing, Microsoft and others
have occasionally announced that they were going to create a filesystem
which could act as a database (or the other way around), and generally
introduce some of the features reiser4 has solid by now.

Every time I've seen such a thing announced, it flops later. It becomes
a userland project, or an abandoned project, and definitely nowhere near
as usable. Reiser4, however, seems to already have that kind of
functionality -- it's efficient at storing lots of tiny flat text files,
and searching them randomly.

I haven't run any benchmarks against "real" databases like mysql, but if
we want to talk about what V4 obsoletes, it obsoletes things which
haven't even been developed/released yet (WinFS on Longhorn).
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