ext4 and reiser4 availability

[Ben Holland]

Well that and I was being quite facetious. I mean, to be honest, I used
resier3 for a while on my gentoo box, thought it was nice... but unless
reiserfs ever gets put in say, the defaults for redhat/fedoria/ubuntu
grabbing traction is going to be really really hard. And now with the lead
developer who (can I say) killed his wife... 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. ~Ben

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Mark J. Dulcey <mark at buttery.org> wrote:

> Ben Holland wrote:
>
> > Well I could look online but I could also ask here, any idea when ext4
> > will
> > be out? Is it out already? ~Ben
> >
>
> ext4 is in the current kernel source, but is still considered under
> development. No Linux distribution that I know of has yet adopted it as its
> "native" file system; as somebody pointed out, Fedora 9 lets you optionally
> install it. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ext4
>
> Given that this started as a thread on Hans Reiser, it's possible that you
> really meant to ask about the fate of reiser4. That file system is not part
> of the main Linux kernel sources; source code used to be available on
> namesys.com while it was still up, but the state of the code base is
> unclear given Reiser's legal entanglement. At least one Namesys programmer
> is still working on it; see http://chichkin_i.zelnet.ru/namesys/ See
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4 for more background on reiser4.
>
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