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Re: BTRFS (butterfs)

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
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> ____/ Peter Köhlmann on Saturday 01 November 2008 23:34 : \____
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>> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>>> ____/ Michael B. Trausch on Saturday 01 November 2008 16:17 : \____
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>>>> On Sat, 1 Nov 2008 09:06:02 -0400
>>>> Chris Ahlstrom <linonut@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> It does look interesting.  Thanks, Mike!
>>>> 
>>>> I'll be interested in checking it out when it's included in the
>>>> mainline kernel even in the staging area.  I reserved some space to
>>>> tinker with it to see what I think of it.
>>>> 
>>>> Though, I think "butterfs" is probably not the best name in the world.
>>>> Makes me think "butter fingers," which really isn't something I'd want
>>>> to associate with a filesystem... but we'll see how it actually does.
>>>> After all, judging a book on its cover isn't a good thing...  :-)
>>>> 
>>>> --- Mike
>>> 
>>> Reiserfs is toast,
>> 
>> Nope
>> It is still the best choice if you have lots of relativly small files
>> 
>>> pass over the butterfs.
>> 
>> Why? Is there anything wrong with EXT3?
>> And since EXT4 is easily outperforming EXT3,XFS and BTRFS, I would use that
>> one instead
>
> I was only joking (toast and butter). Reiserfs is actually still maintained.
>

I still use Reiser for my /var/spool partition, it's good for the news
server...

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