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Date:      Sun, 8 Jul 2001 09:02:43 +0930
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "A. L. Meyers" <a.l.meyers@consult-meyers.com>
Cc:        Antony T Curtis <antony@abacus.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   ReiserFS (was: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help))
Message-ID:  <20010708090243.U75626@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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 %2B0200
References:  <20010707132458.D75626@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20010707144259.Q550-100000@consult-meyers.com>

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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 <joe@tao.org.uk> 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
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