Re: reiser4 plugins

Dan Oglesby
2005-06-23T21:42:04Z

Avuton Olrich wrote:
> On 6/23/05, Adrian Ulrich <reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> wrote:
>
>>From my POV:
>> I've been using Reiser4 for almost everything (Rootfs / External
>> Harddrives) for about ~8 Months without any data loss..
>>
>> Powerloss, unpluging the Disk while writing, full filesystem,
>> heavy use : No problems with reiser4.. It *is* stable.
>
>
> *From users who use it* I have heard nothing but love for reiser4.
> It's amazing how quickly people seem to be dismissive about what
> reiser4 has to offer when they more than likely haven't taken it for a
> spin at all. All I hear about is 'we can't let something ugly go into
> the stable kernel' then in the same day I looked into some of the
> config options...
>
> CONFIG_WDC_ALI15X3:
> *snip*
> This allows for UltraDMA support for WDC drives that ignore CRC
> checking. You are a fool for enabling this option, but there have been
> requests.
> *snip*
>
> How many have requested that reiser4 make it into the kernel? I'd
> imagine many more then requested this IDE feature. And it's an
> *option*. Please work something out on this.
>
> avuton
>

As a user who uses ReiserFS v3, I have nothing but love for ReiserFS.

The speed and reliability are great right now, I'm really looking
forward to using ReiserFS v4.

--Dan