From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 7 9:39: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (lurza.secnetix.de [212.66.1.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CEC837B403 for ; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 09:38:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA19610; Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:38:57 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 18:38:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200107071638.SAA19610@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: JFS In-Reply-To: <20010707144259.Q550-100000@consult-meyers.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-stable User-Agent: tin/1.5.4-20000523 ("1959") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/4.1-RELEASE (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG A. L. Meyers wrote: > Just installed SuSE Linux 7.2 with Reiser FS throughout on an > Intel SMP box. The FS purrs, even on /, which doesn't mean > everything is better or worse than FBSD. > > As far as I know, ReiserFS is GPL. What would porting it to > FreeBSD be better or worse than other (newer and less stable) > alternatives? Maybe a dumb question, but ... In what way is ReiserFS so much better than UFS + Soft- updates + background fsck, that it would justify the efforts of porting ReiseFS to FreeBSD? Just wondering. Regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co KG, Oettingenstr. 2, 80538 München Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way. "All that we see or seem is just a dream within a dream" (E. A. Poe) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message