[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Strange Request, Maybe?

[cbbrowne@hex.net]

On Thu, 10 May 2001 12:12:10 CDT, the world broke into rejoicing as
"Will Senn" <wsenn at postfuture.com>  said:
> I don't suppose you or anyone else knows why Redhat 7.1 doesn't yet
> have Reiser as a choice during setup - Caldera 3.1 beta does,
> Mandrake 8.0 does as well. Is it really not ready for prime time?
> Also do you know about XFS and how it stacks up against Reiser?

Red Hat has some degree of perhaps-not-obvious bias in the matter.

They're paying Stephen Tweedy to do filesystem work, and "his filesystem"
is ext3, which is essentially ext2 plus a journal file alongside.  They
have been pretty careful to not say anything too negative about ReiserFS,
but it sure looks like it suffers from "Not Invented Here" syndrome.

And quite frankly, _ALL_ of the journalling filesystems are quite
experimental on Linux. ReiserFS has the merit that it has been in active
_use_ for a goodly couple of years now, while the others seem rather
further from entrance into the "official" kernel.

XFS may be pretty neat, but I wouldn't expect people to start using it
en masse until, _at the earliest_, when kernel 2.6 is released.  And
2.5 work hasn't started yet, so that is RATHER afar off.
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