Hans Reiser wrote:
> The problem Redhat faces that inspires their opposition is that they
> know that if reiserfs goes in, the US market will go the way the
> European market has, and most of them will never go back even if ext3
> is later performance effective. Why RedHat doesn't just help ReiserFS
> rather than fight it, well, this is the puzzle to me.
Oh come on, ext3 is majorly useful just because you can switch from ext2
to ext3 and back without reformatting. Quickly too.
Copying gigs (in some cases hundreds of gigs) back and forth to switch
to reiserfs, with equal pain switching back if it doesn't work well
after all, can be a _big_ undertaking.
-- Jamie
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