Re: I request inclusion of reiser4 in the mainline kernel

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Theodore Ts'o wrote:

>On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 12:18:46PM -0600, Jonathan Briggs wrote:
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>
>>I use Reiser3 and Reiser4 on all my systems and fsck has always worked
>>even if it has been much slower than I would like.  The only problems
>>I've experienced have been on the same level as when an ext2/3
>>filesystem fsck dumps several directories of unlabeled files into lost
>>+found.
>>    
>>
>
>You've obviously never kept several dozen reiserfs filesystem images
>(for use with Xen or User-Mode Linux) on a reiserfs filesystem, and
>then had a hardware failure bad enough that the fsck had to try to
>rebuild the b-tree, I take it?
>  
>
That is fixed in V4.  Until people start to use V4 they should compress
their V3 backup images that they store on V3, or store them on separate
partitions.  I regret that fixing it without a disk format change was
not possible.

Hans
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