[NTLUG:Discuss] Time to switch away from ReiserFS?

Chris Cox cjcox at acm.org
Thu Jul 10 01:47:44 CDT 2008


Ralph wrote:
> Chris,
>   I don't doubt this at all.  I just setup my first OpenSuse 11 system
> tonight and used Reiser.  But, I expect Reiser usage to be affected
> because most people have no idea who is doing the development.  But,
> most people may not have heard the news or associate it with a Linux
> filesystem, so who knows.  Have you switched away from Reiser as your
> default?

Actually, reiserfs development has been turned over to kernel.org
and the owner is Edward Shishkin (and many others helping).

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/18/390

I can't switch over from reiserfs, there is NO equivalent today,
at least not for true enterprise development.  XFS might qualify,
just had some nasty bugs not terribly long ago (I'm skiddish).





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