From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030320AbWGPNul (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:50:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030329AbWGPNul (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:50:41 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.21]:5066 "HELO mail.gmx.net") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1030320AbWGPNul (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2006 09:50:41 -0400 X-Authenticated: #428038 Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2006 15:50:38 +0200 From: Matthias Andree To: ivo welch Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: reiserFS? Message-ID: <20060716135038.GA8850@merlin.emma.line.org> Mail-Followup-To: ivo welch , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <50d1c22d0607160545rd06c828n55ad9bbbd2f20bfd@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <50d1c22d0607160545rd06c828n55ad9bbbd2f20bfd@mail.gmail.com> X-PGP-Key: http://home.pages.de/~mandree/keys/GPGKEY.asc User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.12-2006-07-14 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, ivo welch wrote: > dear linux geeks: may I ask why the "new" (many years old) reiser > filesystem is not making it into the kernel? it does seem to have > some advantages, if nothing else at least over the old reiser v3. Why would anyone want ReiserFS in the kernel that is discontinued by its developers when it's just started to become stabile and useful, with bugs (hashing) remaining, as happened with 3.6? Who is going to make guarantees this won't happen again with reiser4? Besides that, there had been technical discrepancies that prevented reiser4 inclusion into the baseline kernel when it was suggested, search the archives for details. There's ext3, you can set the dir_index option (either for mke2fs, or afterwards with tune2fs, then unmount and run e2fsck -fD) and you're set. -- Matthias Andree