[Mailman-Developers] Requirements for a new archiver

[J C Lawrence]

On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 05:51:32 +0100 
Brad Knowles <brad.knowles at skynet.be> wrote:

> I'm sorry, I don't trust ReiserFS at all.  I'd trust XFS if it was on
> Irix, or IBMs JFS, but not ReiserFS.  Hell, on a Linux system, I'd use
> ext2fs before I'd use Reiser.

I'll simply note that I've been using ReiserFS on just over a dozen
systems ranging from million+ messages a day list servers to build, dev,
web, and desktop boxes.  I've yet to have problems.

> ... do you really want to try to force them all to use ReiserFS on
> Linux as their only supported option?

Err, want or consider reasonable?

> My understanding is that ext3fs is dead.  

I'd thought that Ted T'so took over some of the reins in his move to
IBM, but I haven't chatted to him in a long whiles.

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