Any thoughts on ext4? [Was: Reiser4 patches]
Curious if anyone has had some experience with ext4?
Peter Yorke
-----Original Message-----
From: Lennart Sorensen [mailto:lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2008 3:36 PM
To: Chris Wakefield
Cc: debian-amd64@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Reiser4 patches.
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:17:24PM -0700, Chris Wakefield wrote:
> Greetings:
>
> I've been looking for an up-to-date URL regarding Reiser4 filesystem;
> namesys.com is down. Does anyone know where I can find Reiser4 stuff?
>
> Although I'm a big Debian fan and fairly experienced, I don't know if
it's
> possible to patch Debian sources with Reiser4 from the repos on the
fly with
> dpkg or...?
>
> I have managed to chroot into my latest deb install on Reiser4, but I
was
> hoping to BOOT directly to it....
>
> Grub2 is not patched yet for Reiser4; There are some patches for
legacy Grub,
> but its not compiling. I think it's the fact that the latest dev
files are:
> 1.0.6-1 and the legacy grub patch is: 1.0.5.
>
> Any ideas would be appreciated.
>
> By-the-way, I noticed quite a difference of performance with Reiser4.
Personally I prefer my data intact. I had enough bad experience with
reiserfs3 that version 4 has no interest what so ever.
The fact it isn't part of the kernel also indicates to me it is nowhere
near ready for prime use.
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Len Sorensen
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