Hi, On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 02:12:57PM -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Larry McVoy wrote: > > Ditto. When Stephen described the design of ext3 to me about 3 years > > ago, I loved it exactly because it tweaked the on disk format almost > > not at all. Absolutely stunning in its brilliance. Sees really obvious > > but most people rewrite everything when they just need to build on > > top of a proven entity. > > I originally bashed the concept of Ext3, then realized it was the > solution most production systems _exactly_needed_. ReiserFS is very > revolutionary and innovative -- i.e. not something I want on a > production fileserver right now. ;-P Hans Reiser has stated that he believes filesystems should be rewritten every 5 years. http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reports/3726/1/ I'm quite glad that there are less dynamic alternatives. :-) Cheers, Stephen
