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- From: "David Kowis" <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
- To: <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
- Subject: [SM-Discuss] ReiserFS 4 is out
- Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:04:24 -0500
Theres a ReiserFS 4
patch for the 2.6 kernel series!
I've been waiting
for this for a while, it has lots of potential. It does data journalling and
everything and is supposed to be extremely good at it.
Installation link
for teh lazy! http://www.namesys.com/install_v4.html
We need the MM
series of the 2.6.x kernels tho.
Reasons why Reiser4 is great for you:
- Reiser4 is the fastest filesystem, and here are the benchmarks.
- Reiser4 is an atomic filesystem, which means that your filesystem operations either entirely occur, or they entirely don't, and they don't corrupt due to half occuring. We do this without significant performance losses, because we invented algorithms to do it without copying the data twice.
- Reiser4 uses dancing trees, which obsolete the balanced tree algorithms used in databases (see farther down). This makes Reiser4 more space efficient than other filesystems because we squish small files together rather than wasting space due to block alignment like they do. It also means that Reiser4 scales better than any other filesystem. Do you want a million files in a directory, and want to create them fast? No problem.
- Reiser4 is based on plugins, which means that it will attract many outside contributors, and you'll be able to upgrade to their innovations without reformatting your disk. If you like to code, you'll really like plugins....
- Reiser4 is architected for military grade security. You'll find it is easy to audit the code, and that assertions guard the entrance to every function.
There is, of course, a warning:
<quote>
V3 of reiserfs is
used as the default filesystem for SuSE, Lindows, FTOSX, Libranet, and Gentoo.
We don't touch the V3 code except to fix a bug, and as a result we don't get bug
reports for the current mainstream kernel version. It shipped before the other
journaling filesystems for Linux, and is the most stable of them as a result of
having been out the longest. We must caution that just as Linux 2.6 is
not yet as stable as Linux 2.4, it will also be some substantial time before V4
is as stable as V3.
</quote>
I'm not too worried
about it tho, I just want to use it on my laptop.
Dave
One login to rule them all, one login to
find them. One login to bring them all, and in the web bind
them.
- [SM-Discuss] ReiserFS 4 is out, David Kowis, 10/26/2004
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