Journaling FS Ships For Gnu/Linux Today
Nov 6th, 21:21 UTC
Journaling for ReiserFS has officially been released by Namesys after extensive testing, and confirmation of its stability by betatesters. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: (San Francisco) --
Journaling for ReiserFS has officially been released by Namesys after extensive testing, and confirmation of its stability by betatesters.
ReiserFS is a revolutionary new
approach to file system design which stores not just filenames but the files
themselves in a B*-tree, giving it performance advantages throughout the file size spectrum.
Hans Reiser, owner of Namesys, said: "Chris is just an amazing
coder. He has been working in his spare-time while holding down a
full-time job, in just a few months he implemented the core of our new journaling code making it
actually faster than the non-journaling version of ReiserFS. We had thought that surely it
would take another 6 months of refinement before we could throw away the
non-journaling code without making speed lovers unhappy, but his first version is
already faster than the non-journaling code, plus you
don't have to wait for fsck everytime you kick a powercord. Things are going to get even faster over the next months too."
 Markus Rex, Director Development of SuSE, said, "Journaling is just
what many of our big customers have been waiting for from Linux, and
we are pleased that with the release of SuSE 6.3 with journaling
ReiserFS included we will be the first Linux vendor to ship journaling
functionality. And our commitment towards ReiserFS goes even further.
We are paying for the development of a filesystem resizer, and are
becoming the primary sponsor for the core of ReiserFS."
Volker Wiegand, head of SuSE's High Availability Technical Support
Group, added, "ReiserFS plays a key role in our strategic plans for
high-availability on Linux, and you can expect to see a lot more from us
in this area."
You can read about and download ReiserFS here.
(Submitted by Hans Reiser of Namesys)
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