Reiser4

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Mon Aug 30 18:15:09 UTC 2004


On Sat, Aug 28, 2004 at 11:59:11AM -0700, Per Bjornsson wrote:
> > What about reiser3? It's been part of red hat's distros for years. Why
> > don't let it as an option on default installations? (eg wihtout typing
> > linux reiserfs)
> Hmm, let me guess:
> 1) Red Hat has no particular interest in ReiserFS since they use ext3 as
> their supported file system for RHEL.
> 2) Nobody else has stepped up to make sure that ReiserFS actually works
> well in Fedora.

3) Why bother? There's no huge pressing need, and Reiser4 is going to (in
theory) be so cool that we might as well wait for it.


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