[rhn-users] Re: ReiserFS and tuning ext3

[Eddy Harvey]

Is there any reason anybody would ever use reiserfs instead of ext3?

I thought the whole point of reiser was to provide journalling back in the
days when ext2 didn't support journalling.  And then when they created ext3,
it made reiser obsolete.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com 
> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Tom Weeks
> Sent: Sunday, June 18, 2006 8:36 PM
> To: rhn-users at redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Re: ReiserFS and tuning ext3
> 
> [old reply to an old post.. sorry]
> On Saturday 22 April 2006 11:41, Ken Dyke wrote:
> > On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 01:01:29PM -0400, Kvetch 
> (kvetch at gmail.com) wrote:
> > > Does anyone know why RH stopped supporting ReiserFS after Ent2.1?
> >
> > I certainly can not speak for RH and may be way of base but 
> I think it 
> > has to do with extended attributes for support of selinux.
> 
> Well *I* heard that Red Hat was wanting to keep all vfs code 
> in common and in the base kernel.. and Mr Reiser refused and 
> would not let his vfs code go from his filesystem module.  
> But then we also have no other journaling filesystems either 
> (JFS, XFS, etc), so that lends itself to the theory that RH 
> is just wanting to upsell their customers to use GFS for everything.  
> Anyway, now even if you try to add the reiser module to the 
> Red Hat kernel, you'll see that Red Hat went to far as to 
> remove all the "hooks" for even including the module in their 
> kernel!  Wow..  That's not cool...  You either have to 
> totally hack up the RH kernel manually (which often  breaks 
> the "patching house of cards"), or just go ahead and violate 
> the RH support contract and switch to a standard kernel.org 
> kernel.  That really sucks.
> 
> I'm a big Red Hat guy myself... but I'll be the first to say 
> that this stance of theirs is one of their biggest mistakes 
> (right up there with their previous stance of leaving out the 
> latest MySQL for licensing reasons).  Just plain stupid and 
> they need to give in.
> 
> Their stance kind of takes Red Hat out of the "Enterprise OS 
> Circle" if you ask me.  If one has fast journaling FS needs, 
> they would be better off either running Fedora Core, the 
> modified CentOS kernel, or if you need the enterprise SLAs, 
> maybe even SLES (Novel).
> 
> Tweeks
> 
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