Install only offers ext2/3?
Maynard Kuona
knxmay001 at mail.uct.ac.za
Fri Oct 17 02:15:09 UTC 2003
Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
>
>>
>> Its at your own risk because its not subject to serious testing with
>> things
>> like the improvements and 2.5 backport code. Not because reiserfs is
>> intrinsically unstable or flawed.
>
>
> I'd heard some discussions that indicated that ReiserFS doesn't check
> for hash collisions in its directories, and that there was a non-zero
> probability that a new file would replace an older file even though
> their names did not match. It seemed a little incredible. Is that
> claim now untrue? Was it ever true?
>
>
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I heard this is true, but the chances are very remote. However, on a
system with lots of files, the chances become greater.
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