On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 09:17 -0400, Chris Gianelloni wrote: > 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?
> 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. > I've been using reiser4 on and off on my amd64 box for ~ 6 months now without any reiser4 related issues. It mainly runs the stable tree aside from a few packages I maintain. Do I trust my data on reiser4? Just as much as I trust ext3, so I keep backups. Which everyone should do regardless of OS/fs type, etc :P -- Roy Marples <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux Developer
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