From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu May 13 18:30:12 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B60F16A4CE for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 18:30:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mxfep02.bredband.com (mxfep02.bredband.com [195.54.107.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34A2043D41 for ; Thu, 13 May 2004 18:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter.schuller@infidyne.com) Received: from scode.mine.nu ([83.226.138.17] [83.226.138.17]) by mxfep02.bredband.com with ESMTP id <20040514013010.CMSV14728.mxfep02.bredband.com@scode.mine.nu>; Fri, 14 May 2004 03:30:10 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by scode.mine.nu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8163C157AA3; Fri, 14 May 2004 03:32:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Peter Schuller To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 03:32:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.6 References: <40A32D0F.5050101@yahoo.co.uk> <200405132247.33270.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> <20040514084418.6aa3e210.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> In-Reply-To: <20040514084418.6aa3e210.y2kbug@ms25.hinet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200405140332.40577.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> Subject: Re: The journalling file system saga X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 01:30:12 -0000 > > Yes, for the reasons mentioned below, and strictly for practical personal > > use because I'd love to be able to share data between FreeBSD and Linux > > ;) > > Right now, FBSD offers the option to mount ext2 if you've compiled that > into the kernel - I'd be happy to see a reiserfs option as well. If nothing > else it would very useful to have the ability to mount reiserfs partitions > under FreeBSD so that I could read the data I have stored there. Yes, I am aware of the ext2fs support. However I have avoided ext2fs like the plague for quite some time, and probably would not use it even to enable linux/freebsd file sharing... The amount of file system korruption experienced in the event of an unclean shutdown is just too great, even on a personal non-server system. So yeah, ReiserFS would be great. But I suspect it would also be a lot of work. I have googled on this in the past and it seems Namesys/Hans Reiser would be perfectly willing to implement such a thing if somebody were willing to pay for it. I personally think ReiserFS would be a very good choice, if additional filesystems were to be supported. I say this mostly in light of all the 'next generation' features of ReiserFS 4, rather than because of any actual or fictional advantages in performance of ReiserFS 3.x as compared to the alternatives. The idea of ACID transactions at the filesystem level is just too attractive to resist. :) -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller ' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org