From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262921AbVFWXvK (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:51:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262905AbVFWXre (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:47:34 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:46261 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262921AbVFWXqq (ORCPT ); Thu, 23 Jun 2005 19:46:46 -0400 Subject: Re: reiser4 plugins From: Alan Cox To: David Masover Cc: Horst von Brand , Hans Reiser , Jeff Garzik , Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , ReiserFS List In-Reply-To: <42BB31E9.50805@slaphack.com> References: <200506231924.j5NJOvLA031008@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl> <42BB31E9.50805@slaphack.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1119570225.18655.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:43:46 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Iau, 2005-06-23 at 23:04, David Masover wrote: > > What for? It works just fine as it stands, AFAICS. > > So does DOS. Do you use DOS? I don't even use DOS to run DOS programs. False argument. So does the pen, so do hinges on doors. Do you still have hinges on your doors - probably. > "Ain't broke" is the battle cry of stagnation. Its also the battle cry of everyone over the age of 20 who also has a real job to do 8) > But, there are some things Reiser does better and faster than ext3, even > if you don't count file-as-directory and other toys. There's nothing > ext3 does better than Reiser, unless you count the compatibility with > random bootloaders and low-level tools. Certainly compared with reiser3 you've missed a few out including resilience to disk errors (nearly nil on reiser3), and SMP scaling. > You know how many I've had thrashed on Reiser4? Two. The first one was > with a VERY early alpha/beta, and the second one was when I dropped a > laptop and the disk failed. Entirely or bad blocks ? The latter should have a minimal cost on a well designed fs. > Duplication of effort. With plugins, we can optimize the upper layers > of ALL filesystems, regardless of the lower layers, in such a way that In which case the features belong in the VFS as all those with experience and kernel contributions have been arguing.