Comments on: Reiserfs and ext3 http://jonathancarter.org/2008/04/30/reiserfs-and-ext3/ rebel without a pause Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:10:22 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jonathan http://jonathancarter.org/2008/04/30/reiserfs-and-ext3/comment-page-1/#comment-143789 jonathan Thu, 01 May 2008 08:11:48 +0000 http://jonathancarter.co.za/?p=366#comment-143789 Hi Mark. Yes, I agree with everything you say above. I didn't mean to imply that reiserfs was now 'bad'. I suppose I should've said something to that extent in the post. I still look forward to Reiser4, and will certainly try it out when it's available. Hi Mark. Yes, I agree with everything you say above. I didn’t mean to imply that reiserfs was now ‘bad’. I suppose I should’ve said something to that extent in the post. I still look forward to Reiser4, and will certainly try it out when it’s available.

]]> By: Mark Wyatt http://jonathancarter.org/2008/04/30/reiserfs-and-ext3/comment-page-1/#comment-143781 Mark Wyatt Thu, 01 May 2008 07:51:54 +0000 http://jonathancarter.co.za/?p=366#comment-143781 i) Just because Hans Reiser has been found guilty (and I'm guessing that this is just the start of the usual appeal process) doesn't mean that the Reiser 3.x code has 'gone bad' in some way, and you should now automatically avoid it. You might have some kind of moral or ethical concern about, in some way, encouraging or supporting someone found guilty of murder, but I can't really see how that would work. Does me using it make it more likely that a murderer gets off? I can't see it. And anyway, it wasn't a one man effort but a team effort. ii) You could say that Reiser4 was now less likely to get into the kernel, but I'm not sure that's true. Hans Reiser has been famously prickly and difficult to get on with, so if the team holds together, maybe the absence of Hans makes it more likely to progress, not less. (And there has been an early version in Xandros some time ago, so it must be up to some vaguely workable state already.) iii) I will re-assses the situation when ext4 seems 'ready', but 'till then I'm sticking. I'm comfortable here. iv) When talking about performance, one thing that makes it difficult to compare is that performance does depend on configuration. In particular 'noatime' can make a significant difference under some load profiles. i) Just because Hans Reiser has been found guilty (and I’m guessing that this is just the start of the usual appeal process) doesn’t mean that the Reiser 3.x code has ‘gone bad’ in some way, and you should now automatically avoid it.

You might have some kind of moral or ethical concern about, in some way, encouraging or supporting someone found guilty of murder, but I can’t really see how that would work. Does me using it make it more likely that a murderer gets off? I can’t see it.

And anyway, it wasn’t a one man effort but a team effort.

ii) You could say that Reiser4 was now less likely to get into the kernel, but I’m not sure that’s true. Hans Reiser has been famously prickly and difficult to get on with, so if the team holds together, maybe the absence of Hans makes it more likely to progress, not less. (And there has been an early version in Xandros some time ago, so it must be up to some vaguely workable state already.)

iii) I will re-assses the situation when ext4 seems ‘ready’, but ’till then I’m sticking. I’m comfortable here.

iv) When talking about performance, one thing that makes it difficult to compare is that performance does depend on configuration. In particular ‘noatime’ can make a significant difference under some load profiles.

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