From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263800AbUECRGg (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 13:06:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263811AbUECRGg (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 13:06:36 -0400 Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net ([204.127.198.35]:39086 "EHLO rwcrmhc11.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263800AbUECRGe (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 May 2004 13:06:34 -0400 Message-ID: <40967C3C.9040108@namesys.com> Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 10:07:08 -0700 From: Hans Reiser User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steve Lord CC: Justin Piszcz , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Journaling File Sstem Question References: <4095B242.2060001@xfs.org> In-Reply-To: <4095B242.2060001@xfs.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.83.3.0 X-Enigmail-Supports: pgp-inline, pgp-mime Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Steve Lord wrote: > Justin Piszcz wrote: > >> Concerning JFS vs REISERFS vs XFS... >> >> Which would one use for stability? >> >> I realize XFS has been in use probably longer than the other two on >> SGI's, but in Linux it was only recently merged into the 2.4.xx kernel. >> >> However, ReiserFS has been in the 2.4 kernel since the early 2.4.x >> series, JFS on the other hand is somewhere in the middle. > > > XFS was out there for a couple of years before it was merged. XFS was > out there before reiserfs was merged, we first released against 2.3.43 > from my memory. Sorry to quibble, but ReiserFS was out there from before ReiserFS was merged also...;-) and well before 2.3.43.... > > There is a timeline here: > > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/news.html > > XFS went a lot of places before it went into the 2.4 kernel, it has been > in 2.6 for over a year for starters. XFS is a great filesystem.