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#2The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
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#3The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
My thoughts exactly. It's a shame that such interesting developments are shadowed by the brand-name and infamy.
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#4The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
Right? Imagine running a company under the name Hitler Inc. after the end of world war 2. The name just needlessly taints the project which is (obviously) not run by the convicted murderer anymore.
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#5The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
I agree. I used to use reiserfs on everything I touched back in the day: Mandrake, SuSE etc. When Hans R became toxic and ext4 happened to suddenly fit the bill, I followed the rest of the herd and reiserfs3 rapidly fell off the top n filesystem charts. I remember reiser doing some things much, much faster than say ext2, eg directory listing with lots of files. It also seemed to know when to repair itself on boot and simply do the right thing - that would be the journalling that ext2 didn't have and ext3/4 took a while to get working properly.
They could call it rfs or something, anything but reiserfs.
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#6The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
It wouldn't be uncalled for. The past ten years' worth of patches have pretty much come from Edward Shishkin. I can only imagine the work required to keep such a large codebase maintained out of kernel during that time.
The ideas described in the linked email looks quite original, too. The abstraction level between blocks and files have always been a leaky one. It would been interesting to see them implemented. I guess it would require a lot more RAM to be effective but that might not be an impediment these days.
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#7The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
New allocator idea sounds a lot like the metaslab approach used in ZFS.
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#8The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
Right? Imagine running a company under the name Hitler Inc. after the end of world war 2. The name just needlessly taints the project which is (obviously) not run by the convicted murderer anymore.
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#9The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
”Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer.”
Not a great namesake, is it?
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#10The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd rename it.
I agree. I used to use reiserfs on everything I touched back in the day: Mandrake, SuSE etc. When Hans R became toxic and ext4 happened to suddenly fit the bill, I followed the rest of the herd and reiserfs3 rapidly fell off the top n filesystem charts. I remember reiser doing some things much, much faster than say ext2, eg directory listing with lots of files. It also seemed to know when to repair itself on boot and…
"much faster than say ext2"
Mordsschnell!