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Dan Hollis wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Tue, 19 Jul 2005, Marc Perkel wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Actually Redhat does support Reiser. When you install you have to type
"linux reiserfs" on the command line to get the reiser options.
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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
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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.<br>
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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. ;)<br>
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