Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264254AbUD0SMs (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:12:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264251AbUD0SKZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:10:25 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:60378 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264254AbUD0SH4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:07:56 -0400 Message-ID: <408EA16C.4030102@pobox.com> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 14:07:40 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030703 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Hans Reiser CC: Christoph Hellwig , Chris Mason , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com, akpm@osdl.org Subject: Re: I oppose Chris and Jeff's patch to add an unnecessary additional namespace to ReiserFS References: <1082750045.12989.199.camel@watt.suse.com> <408D3FEE.1030603@namesys.com> <20040426203314.A6973@infradead.org> <408E986F.90506@namesys.com> <20040427183400.A20221@infradead.org> <408E9F42.2080804@namesys.com> In-Reply-To: <408E9F42.2080804@namesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1216 Lines: 39 Hans Reiser wrote: > Christoph Hellwig wrote: > >>> Did you notice that V4 blows XFS and ReiserFS V3 away in >>> benchmarks? That is what I have been doing for 3 years.... >>> >>> See www.namesys.com for details. >>> >> >> >> see www.microsoft.com why Windows is much better than Linux. Yeah, >> thanks. >> >> > Ask the users whether their laptops, etc., seem to go a lot faster with > V4. They seem to be pretty happy with it. > > V4 fixed all of V3's serious performance flaws, and totally obsoletes > it. I am very happy with it. For the present thread, this is irrelevant, as the irreverent responses hinted at: Regardless of _any_ features or fixes in V4, reiserfs V3 will be used in production system for years. Minor feature additions to an existing filesystem make it far easier for kernel engineers and sysadmins to assess the impact on their systems -- which is typically of less impact than switching to a new filesystem. Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/