Reiser4 is out!

[Darkelve]

See:

 

http://namesys.com/

 

and

 

http://www.osnews.com/

[Guest anon]

 

WARNING: Reiser4 has just been released. Namesys has the most stringent QA process of any Linux maintainer, a firm belief that no user should hit a bug that developer testing could find first if the effort is made, a by now grand archive of filesystem tests, and no one on our mailing list can make it crash any more, and all of this is why it took us so long to release it, but until a program has seen a few million real users you should not use it for a mission critical server. For that, use ReiserFS V3 for now, as V3 has millions of users and goes many months between bug reports (and the bug reports we do get relate to tweaks someone outside Namesys added, not core code.).

[Darkelve]

Might I add, anon, that X.org will release V6.8 of their 'X' soon:

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=8106

with 'composite' as a main attraction.

 

and that KDE is looking very tempting:

http://developer.kde.org/development-versi...html#inprogress

 

I especially like the work being done on file transfers in Kopete, and the possiblity to send a file from Konqueror directly to one of your (Kopete, I suppose) IM contacts.

 

Yupyupyup, Linux is looking great as ever :D

[Guest anon]

Might I add, anon, that X.org will release V6.8 of their 'X' soon:

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=8106

with 'composite' as a main attraction.

Yea, i saw that. Things are looking good eh?

[Guest anon]

Getting started with Reiser4

 

1. Obtain kernel source up to 2.6.5-rc2 version of Linux kernel proposed by READ.ME file on http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/LATEST.

 

2.Apply the patches from http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/LATEST/.

 

3. Compile kernel with reiser4 support turned on.

 

4. Boot with new kernel, get the latest libaal from the same directory http://www.namesys.com/snapshots/LATEST/ and compile it:

 

    # tar zxf libaal-XXXXXX.tar.gz

    # cd  libaal-X.X.X

    # ./prepare

    # ./configure

    # make

    # make install

    # ldconfig

 

5. Get reiser4progs from the same directory http://www.namesys.com/snapshots and compile it:

 

    # tar zxf reiser4progs-XXXXXX.tar.gz

    # cd  reiser4progs-X.X.X

    # ./configure

    # make

    # make install

 

6. Create reiser4 filesystem on spare device:

 

    # /usr/local/sbin/mkfs.reiser4

 

7. Do whatever you used to do with filesystem.

OR, wait for you favourite Distro to add it in.

[Darkelve]

Might I add, anon, that X.org will release V6.8 of their 'X' soon:

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=8106

with 'composite' as a main attraction.

Yea, i saw that. Things are looking good eh?

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You bet you bet you bet!! :D

 

I my Linux!

[jlc]

I was running rs4 on a gentoo box with it on / and /home and somethings seemed faster, but I didn't notice any kind of ubber l33t sp33d burst from it