From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 7 16:32:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA0D37B405 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:32:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 5EE536ACBC; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 09:02:43 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2001 09:02:43 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: "A. L. Meyers" Cc: Antony T Curtis , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help)) Message-ID: <20010708090243.U75626@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010707132458.D75626@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010707144259.Q550-100000@consult-meyers.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010707144259.Q550-100000@consult-meyers.com>; from a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com on Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 02:50:21PM +0200 Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 7 July 2001 at 14:50:21 +0200, A. L. Meyers wrote: > On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Friday, 6 July 2001 at 11:31:49 +0100, Antony T Curtis wrote: >>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>> >>>> On Wednesday, 4 July 2001 at 11:38:08 +0100, Antony T Curtis wrote: >>>>> Greg Lehey wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tuesday, 12 June 2001 at 19:22:45 +0200, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >>>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jun 2001 12:09:58 +0100 >>>>>>> Josef Karthauser wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 08, 2001 at 08:32:23AM -0700, Eric Parusel wrote: >>>>>>>>>>> A journalling FS for those people who just hate waiting for a >>>>>>>>> couple >>>>>>>>>>> of >>>>>>>>>>> TB of slow disks to fsck? >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Does ReiserFS work with FreeBSD? ? ? ? > > (big snip) > > Hey, guys and gals, did you forget this part of the original > post? No, they didn't notice it, because the Subject: line was pointing elsewhere. Piggybacking new questions onto old topics doesn't work well unless you change the Subject: line. > Just installed SuSE Linux 7.2 with Reiser FS throughout on an Intel > SMP box. The FS purrs, even on /, which doesn't mean everything is > better or worse than FBSD. I don't know enough about ReiserFS to be able to give a useful opinion. The Linux people I know are by no means in agreement about its merits, but I've heard that it's best as a "special purpose" FS for small files. I don't know how valid that statement is. Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message