Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932152AbVIRSKW (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:10:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932153AbVIRSKW (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:10:22 -0400 Received: from 69-18-3-179.lisco.net ([69.18.3.179]:31933 "EHLO ninja.slaphack.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932152AbVIRSKU (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Sep 2005 14:10:20 -0400 Message-ID: <432DAD87.2090500@slaphack.com> Date: Sun, 18 Sep 2005 13:10:15 -0500 From: David Masover User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Macintosh/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: Denis Vlasenko , Hans Reiser , Andrew Morton , Linus Torvalds , LKML , ReiserFS List Subject: Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel References: <432AFB44.9060707@namesys.com> <432B1F84.3000902@namesys.com> <20050917092247.GA13992@infradead.org> <200509171356.14497.vda@ilport.com.ua> <20050918102357.GA22210@infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <20050918102357.GA22210@infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1297 Lines: 34 Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 01:56:14PM +0300, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > >>At least reiser4 is smaller. IIRC xfs is older than reiser4 and had more time >>to optimize code size, but: >> >>reiser4 2557872 bytes >>xfs 3306782 bytes > > > and romfs is smaller than ext2, damn. Should we remove all filesystems but > romfs now? > > > and yeah, if you didn't get the hint compare the feature sets. XFS does have a nice feature set, sure. So does Reiser4. XFS can "freeze" the filesystem, take a live snapshot, and do some other, similar tricks. Reiser4 can show file metadata as files themselves, compress on-the-fly (last I checked, the compression code is in there, just not being used), and pack small files incredibly well. XFS has xattrs. Reiser has metas, and will eventually provide an xattr interface to them. You may not value Reiser's feature set, but that doesn't make it less complex. Romfs is actually simpler than ext2, and its whole "feature" seems to be having a tiny implementation. - 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/