Re: Filesystems

[David Forel <dforel@xxxxxxx>]

I struggled with that page too.  Tim, thanks for posting that link.
However, I think we don't have to be sexist -- "childish" would do
just as well, I think.


> From: Jack Matheson <jkmathes@xxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: Filesystems
> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 09:44:41 -0500
> To: lug-l@xxxxxxx
> 
> After weeding out personal BS and 4 year old girlish attacks, your  
> conclusion is that "Reiser FS is absolute shit" ?
> 
> *giggle*
> 
> 
> > Well,
> >
> > After struggling through the first page of that thread, I'm
> > about ready to give up.  After weeding out the personal BS,
> > 
> > and the 4 year old girlish attacks made back and forth, I 
> > have to agree with Tim and say: "Reiser FS is absolute shit".
> > That goes for v3 that seems to have data stability problems,
> > and v4 which is redundant in coding style, and hard for the
> > kernel development team to read.
> >
> > -Dan
> >
> >
> >
> >> Steve brought up the main reason that I think Reiser sucks. The FS
> >> shouldn't just die when hardware begins to fail. This has been
> >> documented countless times with Reiser 3. For those waiting for  
> >> Reiser 4
> >> to be included you might want to tell Hans Reiser to get his head  
> >> out of
> >> his butt. The kernel developers don't seem to be very pleased with  
> >> him.
> >> I refer you to the following Kernel Trap article:
> >>
> >> http://kerneltrap.org/node/5679
> >>
> >> Heck it doesn't even look as though Reiser4 will be backwards  
> >> compatible
> >> with Reiser3, but I can't substantiate that because I'm lazy so  
> >> take it
> >> with a grain of salt.
> >>
> >> ReiserFS has a 2-fold problem: It eats data on failing drives and the
> >> head developer is (seemingly) a dick.
> >>
> >> Tim
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