Re: The Future of ReiserFS development

From: Lee Revell
Date: Thu Oct 12 2006 - 11:03:04 EST


On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 10:36 +0200, roland wrote:
> >> What is the plan? Could i
> >> migrate from reiserfs to another journaling filesystem?
> >
> >Of course: Simply backup, mkfs and restore!
>
> not that simple if you have hundreds of thousands or even millions of small
> files !
> reiserfs is quite efficient in storing small files.
> don`t know if there is anyfilesystem which is as efficient with this.....

I thought reiserfs (aka reiser3) was in deep maintainence mode anyway?
Why do you need to migrate away from it?

Reiser4 however is another story...

Lee

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