Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

Horst von Brand
2005-09-20T18:18:36Z

David Masover <ninja@slaphack.com> wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >>V3 is obsoleted by V4 in every way. V3 is old code that should be
> >>marked as deprecated as soon as V4 has passed mass testing. V4 is far
> >>superior in its coding style also. Having V3 in and V4 out is at this
> >> point just stupid.

> > Really? Last time I checked, even V3's fsck was not too great. [In
> > fact I never could make it run stable enough to even _test_ it
> > properly].
> > Do you have working fsck for V4?

> Already saved me once. But then, I should have had backups.

And if you haven't? Backing up 200+ GiB is no peanuts...

> And personally, if it was my FS, I'd stop working on fsck after it was
> able to "check". That's what it's for. To fix an FS, you wipe it and
> restore from backups.

Remind me /never/ to go near a filesystem you are in any way involved with.
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