On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 10:10 +0100, Chris Bainbridge wrote: > On 03/10/05, Mike Doty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd prefer if the patch was left out for amd64 users, or included via a > > use flag. reiser4 isn't yet stable or proven on amd64. > > A quick search found this quote: "The topic in channel #gentoo-amd64 > on irc.freenode.net has said "Reiser4 is evil" for more than a year." > > However http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_AMD_64 and the forum threads it > links to seem to suggest that people are successfully using reiser4 on > amd64 with recent kernels?
The gentoo-wiki.com site is not an official Gentoo site. Anything written there can't be considered factual or accurate, and definitely doesn't reflect on official Gentoo stance on anything, except where quoted directly from a gentoo.org site (other than the forums, and probably not planet or universe, either). That being said, it's usually correct on things. The forums has had reports of people using reiser4 on everything from their amd64 to their toaster forever, all claiming "stability" even at times when reiser4 support wouldn't compile on that platform. What I am trying to point out here is that reports in the forums should be taken with a grain of salt. I'm unaware of any testing having been done by the amd64 team recently. I am aware of several people with "stable" reiser4 systems having the file system go tits up on them, however. I don't remember what platform they were on, but I also know that they were running kernels not in the tree, which means they have questionable stability themselves, so pinpointing the file system as the actual problem is difficult, at best. My suggestion is to try it. If it works for you, then great. If it doesn't, don't come asking us, as we'll probably say something like "I told you so." Basically, I think it is perfectly fine to play around with reiser4, but I wouldn't trust it with *my* data. Not yet. -- Chris Gianelloni Release Engineering - Strategic Lead x86 Architecture Team Games - Developer Gentoo Linux
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