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Steev Klimaszewski wrote: |
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> Francesco Riosa wrote: |
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>> Brian Davis wrote: |
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>>> |
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>>> Francesco Riosa wrote: |
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>>>> Brian Davis wrote: |
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>>>>> The only comment I'll make is that Reiserfs doesn't support SELinux. |
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>>>> That it's "non issue" for a new server, reiser3 is getting obsolete, |
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>>>> it's advantages are not enough to try the risk, |
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>>> Why do you say that? |
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>> - upstream has serious real life troubles |
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>> - SuSE is not anymore so interested in reiser3 |
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>> - a continuously changing linux kernel may lock a reiser user to an old |
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>> version (pain for a security oriented system) |
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>> - ext3 evolving and becoming ext4 in a reasonable mount of time |
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>> - major advantages only with _many_ files in one single directory |
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>> don't get me wrong I liked and still like reiserfs but it's time is gone |
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> I've been lurking on this list for a while, running a couple of |
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> hardened servers, and the Gentoo guidelines for servers suggest reiser |
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> as the fs. I guess my couple of questions are, |
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> 1) What does what SUSE's interest in reiser have to do with anything? |
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> (Serious question here, not an attempt at a troll, I really am curious |
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> as I don't follow along very closely) |
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And it's a good question, reiserfs is opensource and so the interest of |
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only a subject (SuSE) is moot, but my feelings are the the community is |
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not any more interested in support reiser3 very much (obviously speaking |
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of feelings this opinion is moot too ). |
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Peter Volkov has already pointed out why and when SuSE decided to choose |
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other roads (may worth read it). |
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> 2) Is there anything other than backing up a partition, and mkfs'ing |
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> to a different format? I.E. some type of conversion utility for |
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> reiserfs->other format? |
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No, but backup and restore is not something that someone want to |
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schedule expecially with a great amount of data |
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, it may take hours (days) and the fact that you must consider it |
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choosing reiserfs3 now is still a detractive point. |
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People, this look like no more an "gentoo-hardened" issue, wont to end |
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the discussion (if needed) via private mail? |
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if you chose that, please write to "francesco"at"pnpitalia".it it's more |
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likely to get an answer. |
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sorry for the spam |
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