From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 7 6:44:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mgw1.MEIway.com (mgw1.meiway.com [212.73.210.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6DA037B40A for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 06:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from LConrad@Go2France.com) Received: from mail.Go2France.com (ms1.meiway.com [212.73.210.73]) by mgw1.MEIway.com (Postfix Relay Hub) with ESMTP id C997816B16 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 15:44:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from IBM-HIRXKN66F0W.Go2France.com [195.115.185.184] by mail.Go2France.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id A431CF6F0128; Sat, 07 Jul 2001 15:52:49 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20010707153838.02623308@mail.Go2France.com> X-Sender: LConrad@Go2France.com@mail.Go2France.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2001 15:45:10 +0200 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Len Conrad Subject: Re: JFS (was: The FreeBSD core team needs your help) In-Reply-To: <20010707144259.Q550-100000@consult-meyers.com> References: <20010707132458.D75626@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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. > >As far as I know, ReiserFS is GPL. What would porting it to >FreeBSD be better or worse than other (newer and less stable) >alternatives? >Is this a technical issue or are politics involved? Hereīs a recent comment from Wietse Venema, who knows a thing or two about huge file systems under stress, in response to a userīs problem with postfix: "You are welcome to reproduce this problem on a non-Reiserfs file system. Until then I will ignore the problem report." With an endorsement like that..... :))) Len http://MenAndMice.com/DNS-training http://BIND8NT.MEIway.com : ISC BIND 8.2.4 for NT4 & W2K http://IMGate.MEIway.com : Build free, hi-perf, anti-abuse mail gateways To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message