Re: [STACK] >3k call path in reiserfs

From: Hans Reiser
Date: Fri Jun 11 2004 - 13:08:01 EST


Chris Mason wrote:

On Fri, 2004-06-11 at 12:32, Hans Reiser wrote:



Reiser4 is going to obsolete V3 in a few weeks. V3 will be retained for compatibility reasons only, as V4 blows it away in performance.




This would be the conservative release management you were talking about
before, right? It's going to take a considerable amount of time for v4
to obsolete v3, because it will take a considerable amount of time for
v4 to become stable under the wide range of conditions that filesystems
get used.


A better statement would be:

V3 will exist for those who don't want to use the latest fs on the block, and for those who started to use V3 and don't care enough about performance and features to engage in the work needed to change (99% of existing users, unless someone funds convertfs).

Please don't misunderstand this as a statement against v4, I would love
to see it be 1000x as fast as every other FS. I'm only asking for some
kind of realism in the expectations you give the users.

-chris







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