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Re: ext4 and reiser4 availability



 ext3/4 is also open sourced.... and has a huge percentage of market share, 
and has a huge proven track record.... and.... 

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 3:31 PM, David Hummel <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 2:32 PM, Jerry Feldman <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:02:00 -0400 
> >  "Ben Holland" <[hidden email]> wrote: 
> >  > Also all the dev's on ext3/4 
> >  > and it's great stability and general all around awesomeness I don't 
> see 
> >  > reiser filling a need. 
> >  Personally, I would rather see development go into improving ext2/3/4 
> >  as well as cluster file systems. IMHO, reiserFS4 will never go out the 
> >  door since Namesys is virtually defunct, and there are a few developers 
> >  hanging on. 
> 
> There are clear technical reasons why one would want to consider 
> running ReiserFS/Reiser4 instead of ext3/4.  Regardless of the status 
> of Namesys and its associated developers, Reiser is open source, and 
> if the need exists, the project will be continued by other interested 
> developers... 
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