Dan Hollis wrote:

On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:

Actually Redhat does support Reiser. When you install you have to type 
"linux reiserfs" on the command line to get the reiser options.


They "let" you install reiserfs, but if you ask for support they'll tell 
you to FOAD. Don't bother opening any bugzilla, if it has the word 
'reiserfs' in it anywhere it will be instantly closed WONTFIX.

Redhat is promoting ext3 hard, which is understandable since they are 
bankrolling ext3 and see reiserfs as a competitor.

-Dan

Perhaps. But if they don't get a tree into Ext3 they can promote it till hell freezes over and it's still going to be slow on directories with a large number of files.

You know what surprises me is that someone doesn't merge Netware into Linux. Netware was light years ahead of all Linux systems 20 years ago and I don't know if Linux will ever catch up. The had not only bTrees but transaction tracking that allowed any number of pending groups of transactions to be cleanly backed out if they fail to complete. But - i'm not going to go there because that would start a religious war. ;)