Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:56:21 +0200 | From | Adrian Ulrich <> | Subject | Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion |
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> Well - easy to fix, newfs again with proper inode density (perhaps 1 per > 2 kB) and redo the migration.
Ehr: Such a migration (on a very busy system) takes *some* time (weeks). Re-Doing (migrate users back / recreate the FS / start again) the whole thing isn't really an option..
> Of course you're free to pay for a new > file system if your fellow admin can't be bothered to remember newfs's > -i option.
Let's face it: Shit happens and nobody is perfect. A filesystem should be flexible (modern..) and support Admin/User-needs.
We wouldn't need ECC / Raid / UPS's in a perfect world.
> > Have you ever seen VxFS or WAFL in action? > > No I haven't. As long as they are commercial, it's not likely that I > will.
Why?
NetApp WAFL-Blurb: http://www.netapp.com/library/tr/3002.pdf
Maybe we should crop the Cc: list .. this is getting OT.
-- Adrian
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