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Old 02-20-2005, 11:50 AM   #31
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thank's for finding the links.. honestly I've been too lazy to post them.
 
Old 02-20-2005, 04:24 PM   #32
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Thanks. I read through the first one, and am reading the second one and this jumps out at me:

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My own order of preference is b) c) a). The fact that one filesystem will
offer features which other filesystems do not and cannot offer makes me
queasy for some reason.
Hmm, ext2/ext3 supports the immutable bit, file compression, and other features that chattr can set, but the other filesystems don't. Based on Andrew Morton's logic, ext(2/3) ought to be dropped from the Linux kernel, right? After all, it supports extensions which other Linux filesystems do not. Also, XFS, UFS, and ReiserFS all allow file sizes >2GB, but ext2 does not, therefore that is all the more reason that ext(2/3) ought to be dropped from the kernel. Or, should ReiserFS extensions be allowed, providing that backwards compatibility is not broken?

Personally, I'd love to see more atomic file permissions implemented. -RWXRWXRWX is not as flexible as permissions allowed on NTFS, Netware, or even VMS filesystems (it's great to be able to deny a single user access to a filesystem resource should the need arise - without having to create a whole new group to do it). What is wrong with expanding the feature set of a filesystem providing that backwards compatibility is taken into account, or at least a mechanism for gracefully handling an incompatibility (exception handling, anyone?) - Andrew Morton's take on it is potentially holding back progress.

Personally, I *heart* ResierFS. I like the idea of zero slack. I need and use the >2GB support. I like the journaling (it saved my behind once as I cited above - a day's worth of work), and I like the performance. When I first read about btree-based filesystems (Longhorn) I was apprehensive, but when I came back to Linux last year, I read about ReiserFS3 and I decided to chance it - and I was pleasantly surprised that it performed just as well as, if not better than conventional filesystems. Then, it took a few months, but I finally ran into an issue where I NEEDED the journaling, so I rebooted, ran fsck, it replayed the journal, and I had my day's work back. I wish ReiserFS supported some of EXT(2/3)'s proprietary extensions, but all the filesystems are a work in progress and none of the various filesystems' extensions should be barred from the kernel - providing that extraneous/tangental utilities either downgrade gracefully or otherwise handle the missing or extra features well.

--Kim

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Old 02-20-2005, 04:26 PM   #33
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(sorry: double-posted, mods please delete)

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