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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Reiser4 making another run for Linux kernel merge!

Read here: http://marc.info/?t=124901487500003&r=1&w=2 and here: http://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/TODO

I'll definitely give it a try if it merges. I'd really like to see resizing for it, though. The automatic compression is one thing I'm really looking forward to in filesystems.

jumico

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Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 16

Re: Reiser4 making another run for Linux kernel merge!

Hopefully it will be accepted.  According to Wikipedia.  "Linux kernel developers claim that Reiser4 does not follow Linux coding standards"

http://kernelnewbies.org/WhyReiser4IsNotIn

jwcxz

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Registered: 2008-09-23

Posts: 239

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Re: Reiser4 making another run for Linux kernel merge!

I'd be very happy to see this.  I used Reiser4 on my Gentoo system for years and never experienced a single issue (though people noted that if your partition approaches its capacity limit, you can start losing data), even when the older (and buggier) nVidia drivers used to cause hard crashes.  Furthermore, Reiser4 handled all sorts of file operations very quickly for both large and small files.  It really was becoming a good filesystem.

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Zariel

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Registered: 2008-10-07

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Re: Reiser4 making another run for Linux kernel merge!

Would love to see it merge, up till btrfs is usable.

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

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Re: Reiser4 making another run for Linux kernel merge!

Apparently Edward Shishkin, the current Reiser4 maintainer, has been much more cooperative in terms of making Reiser4 follow Linux standards for filesystems.

This will be a very interesting competitor to ext4, Btrfs, and ZFS (of course, this last one not on Linux) if it is merged. Perhaps then we can finally have an answer to Mac, *BSD, and OpenSolaris fans who are trumpeting ZFS, since Btrfs is still a ways off

Acecero

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Registered: 2008-06-21

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Re: Reiser4 making another run for Linux kernel merge!

What an awesome opportunity for Linux

mikesd

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Registered: 2008-02-01

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Re: Reiser4 making another run for Linux kernel merge!

This sounds interesting. I have used Reiser v3 in the past but have never looked at v4. Btrfs will be welcomed by me though it appears to be quite a way off yet till it is ready for production use. I have been using ZFS with OpenSolaris for a couple of months now and am very happy with it. It makes file system administration very easy. It would be nice to have an ZFS alternative on Linux.

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