Re: postgresql and reiserfs

On 10/31/06, Devrim GUNDUZ <devrim(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 09:31 -0800, Richard Broersma Jr wrote:
>
> > I heard that reiser4 is not yet stable. And that there is a chance
> > that it wont be since its author is in detention.
>
> Here are the links:
>
> http://linux.slashdot.org/linux/06/10/15/0057203.shtml
> http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/06/10/11/0142216.shtml?tid=123
>
> Also, SuSE announced that they will be switching to ext3 in their next
> SLES releases:
>
> http://news.com.com/Novell+makes+file-storage+software
> +shift/2100-1016_3-6125509.html
>
> Red Hat, major player in Enterprise game, is supporting ext* for years.
> reiserfs is not enabled by default.
>
> So, IMHO, since less people will be using reiser, I would not use that
> in my installations.
>
> > Most of the recommendations that I've seen are to use
> > good-old-reliable EXT3 which keeps your data safe
>
> Also ext2 is preferred on many installations, especially when people
> want to avoid journals.

If i was a betting man, I would guess that (currently being developed)
ext4 will win the filesystem popularity contest at some point in the
future, and will probably dominate enterprise linux installations.

merlin