Re: [gentoo-dev] grub reiser4

[Roy Marples]

On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 09:17 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:10 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> > On 03/10/05, Mike Doty <kingtaco@g.o> wrote:
> > > I'd prefer if the patch was left out for amd64 users, or included via a
> > > use flag.  reiser4 isn't yet stable or proven on amd64.
> >
> > A quick search found this quote: "The topic in channel #gentoo-amd64
> > on irc.freenode.net has said "Reiser4 is evil" for more than a year."
> >
> > However http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64 and the forum threads it
> > links to seem to suggest that people are successfully using reiser4 on
> > amd64 with recent kernels?

> My suggestion is to
> try it.  If it works for you, then great.  If it doesn't, don't come
> asking us, as we'll probably say something like "I told you so."
>
> Basically, I think it is perfectly fine to play around with reiser4, but
> I wouldn't trust it with *my* data.  Not yet.
>

I've been using reiser4 on and off on my amd64 box for ~ 6 months now
without any reiser4 related issues. It mainly runs the stable tree aside
from a few packages I maintain.

Do I trust my data on reiser4? Just as much as I trust ext3, so I keep
backups. Which everyone should do regardless of OS/fs type, etc :P

-- 
Roy Marples <uberlord@g.o>
Gentoo Linux Developer