[svlug] More on the Reiser case - fs

[Rick Moen]

Quoting stripes (stripes at tigerlair.com):

> Btw, how popular is ReiserFS? I personally don't have much experience
> from it, except trying to recover files off the system and not having
> appropriate rescue disk :)

ReiserFS has been popularised to date mostly through its being the
default on SUSE (which will apparently no longer be the case, for the
future).  It's pretty high-performance in many areas, and has tried out
some innovative ideas about database-like features (balanced-tree
design) and 'extents'.

The best place to find out about it is here:  http://www.namesys.com/