Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3)

From: Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>
To: Daniel Egger <degger@fhm.edu>
Cc: Nikita Danilov <Nikita@Namesys.COM>,
	Hans Reiser <reiser@namesys.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailinglist <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	reiserfs mailing list <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
Subject: Re: Reiser4 status: benchmarked vs. V3 (and ext3)
Date: 26 Jul 2003 11:19:50 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1059203990.21910.13.camel@haron.namesys.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1059181687.10059.5.camel@sonja>

On Sat, 2003-07-26 at 05:08, Daniel Egger wrote:
> Am Fre, 2003-07-25 um 16.39 schrieb Yury Umanets:
> 
> > Reiser4 has plugin-based architecture. So, anybody is able to write new
> > block allocator plugin.
> 
> Cool.

> 
> > Speaking about possible embedded usage... What kind of embedded devices
> > do you mean. Reiser4 driver is big enough in size for some of them (for
> > instance, for mine MPIO MP3 player :))
> 
> I'm talking about pretty standard ix86 hardware which has embedded like
> properties such as fanless and motorless use, hardware watchdog, flash
> memory but only few of the typical limitations like restricted memory
> (we are using 256 or 512 MB), slow CPU, few connectors.

> 
> So basically we do have pretty powerful hardware with huge storage and
> memory and now need a FS which is fast and reliable even on flash
> memory. JFFS2 is nice but way too slow once one has bigger sizes.

I think this is more then enough for running reiser4. Reiser4 is a linux
filesystem first of all, and linux is able to be ran on even worse
hardware then you have.

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