Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 06 Mar 1998 16:52:04 -0800 | From | Hans Reiser <> | Subject | Ext2 enhancements, when will reiserfs ever ship, etc. |
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ralf@uni-koblenz.de wrote: > > Hans, > > I don't know if you're following linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu. There > has been quite some talk about possible extensions to ext2 during the > last time on this list. Given that you are working on a new filesystem > that is supposed to be superior compared to ext2 in most, if not all > disciplines I'm asking myself the question if there is still sense in > doing serious development work on ext2. Therefore my question, how long > do you think until Reiserfs has reached production quality? I'm of course > aware that this can only be an estimate but based on this estimate I think > developers could decide whether the investment of time into ext2 makes > sense or not. > > Another thing which I think would be interesting is comparing Reiserfs to > SGI's XFS. I'm using both ext2fs (Linux/MIPS) and XFS on an Indy and have > to admit that XFS has a lot of killer qualities. The general implementation > of Linux for Indys is not yet advanced enough to make a comparison of XFS > vs. ext2fs on the same machine a fair one. > > Ralf
I just subscribed to linux-kernel, I should have subscribed years ago rather than looking in the archives every couple of months as I have done.
We hope to have our second beta ready for beta-release by the end of the month, and a fully released file system proven in its stability in June. Our second beta is able to copy the linux kernel, but it is not ready for release yet. Our previous beta reached the point where it required some effort to crash, but Linus made some remarks about our interface to VFS and how we should toss leashes, accurate remarks that required our scrapping a remarkable amount of code to fix (the code is much cleaner now as a result), and we improved it accordingly. The new dcache code looks like hot stuff to us, I am hoping it will improve our benchmarks further.
If the ext2 guys were to help us with such things as tweaking the NFS-reiserfs interaction, improving reiserfs, adding some of their optimizations such as what they have done in the area of read-ahead, etc., that would help much.
I honestly have no idea how we will compare with XFS. I have a lot of respect for their design. I expect that they would do better at large I/O simply because they have tweaked their buffering system to work with XFS. This is not any inherent advantage in their approach, just a description of what we have not done yet. I have some ideas for how to do it for Reiserfs that I would like to explore someday. There are more things we could do to optimize million file directories that I wonder if they have already done. We should use full filenames in keys....
Thanks Ralf,
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