[plug] What does public opion feel about Riser FS?

[Craig Ringer]

> Yeah, me too. It's been around a lot longer than ext3, so I'm not sure about 
> the maturity argument. It sits well on top of LVM, and allows on the fly 
> resizing (shrinking partitions is still considered beta AFAIK, but it's never 
> failed for me). I like it.

Ditto, essentially. I've been using reiserfs since I managed to bash 
2.4.0 onto my Debian Potato box, and have been endlessly annoyed at Red 
Hat for making it such a PITA to use with their distro. Especially now 
that I have to admin a big RH8 box at work.

For those interested, http://www.namesys.com/ has some interesting 
reading, especially the future plans for reiser4 and reiser5: 
http://www.namesys.com/v4/v4.html

*drool* proper queriable FS capable of file introspection *drool*
Just think - you could "echo 'bob' > bob/track.mp3/artist"... or maybe 
be able to query for files of type audio/mpeg with attribute artist=bob 
- and do so efficiently. My impression is thats the sort of thing Reiser 
is talking about for the later ReiserFS versions....

As it is, reiser3 is a rather nice FS.

Craig Ringer