Re: (reiserfs) Re: patch: reiserfs for 2.3.49

From: Chris Mason (mason@suse.com)
Date: Sun Mar 12 2000 - 19:09:25 EST


On Sun, 12 Mar 2000, Alexander Viro wrote:

>
>
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2000, Hans Reiser wrote:
>
> > We don't yet have a set of valid benchmarks. I can generally say that I don't
> > have confidence in the benchmark performance of this code, there are too many
> > tweaks not yet done, and our goal for Monday is a port to 2.3.51 that does not
> > crash. I hope Linus will put this port in as an experimental filesystem, and
> > then a bit later we'll be able to tell him the performance merits making it a
> > more than experimental use FS.
>
> Ahem. I really hate to say it, but I dearly hope that it will not happen
> right now. IMNSHO reiserfs in the official tree right now is the worst
> thing one can do to VFS. If my opinion on that is of any interest -
> please, don't do it.
> Al
>

Ok, Is it the 64 bits of information needed to find a an object in
reiserfs, or is there something else? We are more than open to criticism
and direction, privately or to the list.

-chris

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