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

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Friday 31 December 2010 16:27:02 Dale wrote:
> 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

you are obviously not subscribed to the reiserfs ml. There are the occasional 
fixes and lately even some (minor) updates.

Being in maintenance mode is a GOOD THING for a file system.