Ah the saga of Hans Reiser. That unfortunately is the Downfall of Reiserfs. Yes, his company has disappeared, and a "void" has appeared from his lack of presence? However, the Reiserfs4 patch set is current against the linux kernel 2.6.28 (see http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/edward/reiser4/reiser4-for-2.6/) However I think that (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4) pretty much sums up the future of Reiserfs4. ... However I haven't really run into show stopping bugs on Reiserfs3 in quite some time (with excellent hardware). However you replace it with dodgy hardware and things change. I haven't looked at btrfs yet with Cyrus, perhaps I'll do that sometime soon. On Dec 31, 2008, at 6:20 AM, Janne Peltonen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 04:58:57AM -0800, Scott Likens wrote: >> I would not discount using reiserfs (v3) by any means. It's still >> by far a >> better choice for a filesystem with Cyrus then Ext3 or Ext4. I >> haven't really >> seen anyone do any tests with Ext4, but I imagine it should be >> about par for >> the course for Ext3. > > There are /lots/ of (comparative) tests done: The most recent I could > find with a quick Google is here: > > http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ext4_benchmarks > > The problem with reiserfs is... well. The developers have explicitely > stated that the development of v3 has come to its end, and there was > the > long argument between Hans Reiser and kernel delevopers about > whether v4 > could be included in kernel. When Hans Reiser was charged with murder > (not the crow or Cyrus variant), his company assured that the > development (of v4) would continue, but the last time I tried to find > out anything about the project, it appeared more or less dead. Of > course, the current reiserfs (v3) is very stable, but if you run into > any issues, there really isn't a developer you can contact (or send > patches to, if you figure out the bug). > > > --Janne > -- > Janne Peltonen <janne.peltonen@xxxxxxxxxxx> PGP Key ID: 0x9CFAC88B > Please consider membership of the Hospitality Club (http://www.hospitalityclub.org > ) > > > !DSPAM:495b87d570801804284693! > > ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/twiki List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
