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Rewritten ReiserFS 4 Promises 2-5x Speed Increase

Posted by timothy on from the mounting-tension dept.

An anonymous reader reports that version 4 of "ReiserFS will be released in first quarter. Complete rewrite will support Atomic writing. 2-5 times faster. File corruption will be a thing of the past. Lindows.com is paying for part of it."

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  1. Re:Can't wait. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Distros don't offer it during installation for a few usual reasons:

    1) no mainline kernel acceptance

    2) known data corruption issues

    3) Hans Reiser himself has said they're beta and not quite production yet, but will be soon

  2. Re:Good job to Lindows by optikSmoke · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As another example, Lindows also supports KDE-Look (a KDE desktop theming site) which IIRC couldn't pay for its hosting until Lindows sponsored them.

    Anyway, it's nice to know that a pay-only Linux distribution is still contributing to the community (though I do not use Lindows either).