Re: [gentoo-user] Good file system that recovers from a power failure.

[Dale]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> When was the last time portage offered you a reiser update?
>
> The reiser4progs ebuild has 13 Changelog entries in 2.5 years, 8 of them are
> stabilisation toe various arches. Current version is 1.0.7 and has been there
> for 23 months.
>
> reiserfsprogs is similar, on 3.6.21 for 23 months and one update (not a
> stabilisation) since Aug 2007
>
> reiser4 is not in the mainline kernel, and highly unlikely to ever be there
> according to the last thing I heard Linus say on the matter. Yes, it's in Zen
> IIRC, but Zen is not mainline. And reiser4 will probably never have a real
> fsck either (technical restriction - it's plugins that do the work and fsck
> cannot know what the plugins did)
>
> Hans *was* reiserfs for all practical purposes. SuSE funded most of Reiserfs
> in the early days and they have switched away from it for logistic reasons.
>
> Does any of that sound to you like "actively maintained"?
>
> It's my opinion that reiser is in security-fix-only mode from whoever is
> maintaining it. If everything else around it stays the same, the fs will
> obviously continue working just as it always did. But the surrounding system
> is not stable, it changes rapidly, especially in kernel space, so the odds are
> stacked against reiser for bitrot. For all these reasons, I regretfully
> switched my own systems over to ext4 some time ago. Rieser was a good fs whose
> time has come and gone and I no longer had warm and fuzzies about the future
> with it.
>
>

I'm not sure I EVER saw a update to reiserfs.  I was hoping it was just 
that good.  lol

This is also the reason I was considering moving to ext4 or something.  
How has ext4 been treating you since the switch?  I also assume you have 
UPSs as well?

Dale

:-)  :-)