At the meeting last night, Wed Mar 1, mention of reiserfs was made
so I thought this might be of general interest.

Forwarded message:
>
>    For the reiserfs fans out there: the announcement below has been
>posted yesterday to freshmeat.
>
>    Regards,
>
>    Liviu Daia
>
>
>  subject: reiserfs 3.5.17
> added by: rutger on Feb 29th 2000, 11:50
>  license: GPL
> category: Console/Filesystems
>
> homepage: http://devlinux.com/pub/namesys
> download: http://www.devlinux.com/namesys
>
>description:
>reiserfs is a revolutionary new approach to file system design which
>stores not just filenames but the files themselves in a B*-tree. It is
>a generation ahead of alternatives which use older plain B-tree
>technology, and cannot store the files themselves in the tree. Reiserfs
>doesn't suffer from log congestion either, you can effectively use it
>for quickly creating a 100,000 entry directory, and it is fairly unique
>in that.
>
>changes:
>This release contains all the fixes in 3.5.17pre3, a fix for an obscure
>memory leak, a fix for du reporting incorrect file sizes, a fix for
>garbage past the end of files (hit by news mmaping filesize + 1 bytes),
>fsck fixes to better support the objectid reuse code from 3.5.17pre3,
>greatly reduced transaction messages during FS mounts, the removal of
>some warning messages and extra spinlocks, and a make install target
>for all the util programs.
>
> http://freshmeat.net/news/2000/02/29/951843048.html
>
>--