Re: Reiser4 needs more testers

[markw@osdl.org]

I've run through another test on STP with the latest snapshot against
reiser4 and reiserfs for comparison.  Reiser4 still seems to be lagging
behind reiserfs in our DBT-2 workload (the bigger number is better in
the metric):

          metric  url to test results
          ------  ---------------------------------
reiser4   1208    http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290774/
reiserfs  1819    http://khack.osdl.org/stp/290775/

Mark

On 26 Mar, Hans Reiser wrote:
> We have one NFS related bug remaining, and one mmap all of memory 
> related bug (and performance issue) that you can hit using iozone.  We 
> will fix both of these in next week's snapshot, they were both multi-day 
> bug fixes.  When they are fixed, unless users/distros find bugs next 
> week we will submit it for inclusion in the -mm and then the official 
> kernel.
> 
> We hope it is now fairly stable for average users if you avoid those two 
> issues (we need to get rid of those dire warnings about its 
> stability...., we will remember that next snapshot....;-) )
> 
> We need a lot more real user testers, because we have run out of scripts 
> that can crash it, and there are distros that would like to ship it 
> soon.  Please also complain to vitaly@namesys.com and ramon@namesys.com 
> about poor documentation, etc., ....
> 
> The new reiser4 snapshot (against 2.6.5-rc2) is available at
> 
> http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/2004.03.26/