Ted Tso on htree stability

[Yusuf Goolamabbas]

Response by Ted Tso to Bill Nottingham's post about htree instability
and this its non inclusion in severn

----- Forwarded message from Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> -----

Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:38:33 -0400
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu>
To: Yusuf Goolamabbas <yusufg at outblaze.com>
Cc: ext3-users at redhat.com
Subject: Re: htree and Severn
Message-ID: <20030730183833.GD16161 at think>

> > My reading of the kernel.src.rpm doesn't indicate that Severn has ext3
> > htree patches. Stephen, were there any issues seen during Cerberus
> > testing ?
> > 
> > Regards, Yusuf
> 
> Following up to my own post, Bill Nottingham of Redhat mentioned on the
> rhl-beta-list that the last time they tried htree, they found quite a
> few bugs and as such not including it.
> 
> http://listman.redhat.com/archives/rhl-beta-list/2003-July/msg00186.html
> 
> I haven't checked Taroon whether it includes htree (I doubt it) though
> it claims to have ext3 updates for performance and stability

My understanding was that the last time Red Hat OS engineering tried
it was a before a number of ext3 bugs were fixed.  I don't know of any
current problems with the htree code.

						- Ted
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