Bug#324202: include ReiserFS ACL support in 2.6.12 kernel

[Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>]

David Madore wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 01:20:37PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > Appart from my general feeling that no one should use Reiser FS,
> 
> Why is that?  I mean, certainly every filesystem has its problems, but
> I don't think there's a consensus that ReiserFS is much worse than the
> others?  I personally find it useful because it doesn't have any
> limitation on the number of inodes.

Exactly those dynamic on-disk structures make it hard to do useful
recovery in case of unexpected (e.g. hardware-) errors. More
conservatively designed filesystems have better chances to keep
the damage to a minimum.


Thiemo