Reiser FS or ext3?

[Jeffrey Watts]

Y'know, you could have just said the following:  "You may want to stay away
from ReiserFS because the lead developer is now incarcerated, and it may
fall into disrepair."  All of the other stuff is really immaterial to a
technical decision.  :)

I personally would add that ext3 is in much more common use and thus may be
more supportable.  It also has the added benefit that you can easily convert
an existing ext2 filesystem to ext3 one, which may be desirable to the
original poster.

Jeffrey.

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Leo Mauler <webgiant at yahoo.com> wrote:

> While I'm sure there will be a lot of votes for ReiserFS, lets get real
> folks.  Ext3 is being developed by a bunch of people who are free to leave
> where they live whenever they want, use a computer without supervision, and
> also not have their wages garnished by the state to pay for their living
> arrangements.
>
> Hans Reiser, the developer of the Reiser filesystem, murdered his wife Nina
> Reiser about 2 years ago (to avoid hefty child support payments), was
> convicted of the crime, has already shown authorities where he buried her
> body, and is about to start a 15-years-to-life prison term for that murder.
>  As the primary developer of the Reiser filesystem, and owner of the Namesys
> company which develops ReiserFS (which is unable to pay any employee's
> salary while he is incarcerated), Reiser4 development ground to a halt
> during his trial, and is likely to simply die off.
>
> So the fact is that if your choice is between Reiser and Ext3, you may want
> to go with Ext3 simply because Ext3 will receive regular updates, and
> ReiserFS is dead in the ground (much like Nina Reiser).
>
> --- On Tue, 9/23/08, gary hildebrand <wa7kkp at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a couple older distros of SuSE -- 6.4 & 7.2
> > and was wondering if there is an easy way to do it
> > with a journaling FS?  Whenever I'd get a hit/crash
> > in ext2, it would sorta eat itself up, and then
> > over a period of time, become unuseable.   6.4 has
> > a wide variety of packages no longer available on
> > the new distros, and I'd like to have a drive set
> > up so I can boot it when wanted.
>
>
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