Re: reiser4 plugins

Herbert Poetzl
2004-08-30T16:02:13Z

On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 02:41:12PM -0700, Hans Reiser wrote:
> I think it is reasonable to make the -nopseudos (turns off the metafiles
> ) mount option mandatory, until the bugs are resolved.
>
> Our testing did not find these metafile/VFS bugs because of the reason
> for all our bugs, we screwed up.
>
> There is a distinct difference between some persons and I, which is that
> some think all of reiser4 should be excluded until metafiles are
> implemented by VFS some long time from now, and I, in that I merely
> think buggy optional features should be turned off until they are
> fixed. I, being renowned for my paranoia and asininity as I am, think
> these persons find it convenient as an excuse to keep us from competing,
> and I think that if we were slower there would be less hassle every time
> we try to get into the kernel.
>
> While reiser4 has some significant roughnesses remaining in its
> performance, I think the average user would find it performs better than
> other filesystems, and is stable enough for, say, a laptop, and I
> predict that by the time we have it stable enough for mission critical
> servers, all the roughness in various important corner cases will be
> gone.
>
> Persons benchmarking it with tarballs, please be sure to use tarballs
> created on reiser4, not ext2 tarballs, readdir order matters a lot for
> sorted directory filesystems.

hmm, so probably we have to wait until all
tar packagers moved to reiser4, so that the
available tar files are 'sorted properly' ...

best,
Herbert

> Hans
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