Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch?] Re: Do ramdisk exec's map direct to buffer cache? | Date | Wed, 2 Aug 2000 01:25:09 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> And yes, within the last four months or so ext3 has actually become > reality.
November 1999
> In large part, I suspect, because it became so painfully obvious that > ReiserFS was getting quite a lot of attention.
You've been reading too many conspiracy theories. Ext3 and Reiserfs are not competitors. Ext3 is a tool to journal ext2fs. Its still slow on huge directories and its still got every other ext2 feature good and bad
Reiserfs has fast handling of large file trees, efficient packing of small files and a whole pile of stuff which puts it and XFS as the competitors.
Really its
ext3fs - migration path, highly stable, no other feature gain
versus
reiserfs - packing, name spaces, btrees lots of new goodies xfs - lots of scalable new (to Linux) goodies ibm jfs - to be seen - but btrees and all the rest
and more researchy stuff like the tree-phase ext2 which offers a whole pile of interesting future paths that journalling doesn't handle well
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