Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: reiser4 plugins | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 24 Jun 2005 00:43:46 +0100 |
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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.
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