From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030297AbWGaR4Y (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:56:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030298AbWGaR4X (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:56:23 -0400 Received: from blinkenlights.ch ([62.202.0.18]:62317 "EHLO blinkenlights.ch") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030297AbWGaR4X (ORCPT ); Mon, 31 Jul 2006 13:56:23 -0400 Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 19:56:21 +0200 From: Adrian Ulrich To: Matthias Andree Cc: vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl, ipso@snappymail.ca, reiser@namesys.com, lkml@lpbproductions.com, jeff@garzik.org, tytso@mit.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, reiserfs-list@namesys.com Subject: Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion Message-Id: <20060731195621.367ed702.reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> In-Reply-To: <20060731165406.GA8526@merlin.emma.line.org> References: <20060731175958.1626513b.reiser4@blinkenlights.ch> <20060731165406.GA8526@merlin.emma.line.org> Organization: Bluewin AG X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 2.2.6 (GTK+ 2.8.20; i486-slackware-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Well - easy to fix, newfs again with proper inode density (perhaps 1 per > 2 kB) and redo the migration. Ehr: Such a migration (on a very busy system) takes *some* time (weeks). Re-Doing (migrate users back / recreate the FS / start again) the whole thing isn't really an option.. > Of course you're free to pay for a new > file system if your fellow admin can't be bothered to remember newfs's > -i option. Let's face it: Shit happens and nobody is perfect. A filesystem should be flexible (modern..) and support Admin/User-needs. We wouldn't need ECC / Raid / UPS's in a perfect world. > > Have you ever seen VxFS or WAFL in action? > > No I haven't. As long as they are commercial, it's not likely that I > will. Why? NetApp WAFL-Blurb: http://www.netapp.com/library/tr/3002.pdf Maybe we should crop the Cc: list .. this is getting OT. -- Adrian