On 10/31/06, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi, On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:31 -0800, Richard Broersma Jr wrote: > I heard that reiser4 is not yet stable. And that there is a chance > that it wont be since its author is in detention. Here are the links: http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/10/15/0057203.shtml http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/10/11/0142216.shtml?tid=123 Also, SuSE announced that they will be switching to ext3 in their next SLES releases: http://news.com.com/Novell+makes+file-storage+software +shift/2100-1016_3-6125509.html Red Hat, major player in Enterprise game, is supporting ext* for years. reiserfs is not enabled by default. So, IMHO, since less people will be using reiser, I would not use that in my installations. > Most of the recommendations that I've seen are to use > good-old-reliable EXT3 which keeps your data safe Also ext2 is preferred on many installations, especially when people want to avoid journals.
If i was a betting man, I would guess that (currently being developed) ext4 will win the filesystem popularity contest at some point in the future, and will probably dominate enterprise linux installations. merlin
