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#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
"Why would anyone pretend to be concerned for someone else's wellbeing?" Virtue signalling.
Ah... "virtue signaling". What the sociopaths among us have branded empathy they cannot feel or understand in others. Just because it is not an emotion you have, does not mean it is not real for others.
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#63Reiser is the only filesystem on Linux that I ever lost data to. And they really should drop the name, that's not just a wish but a must, keeping it is completely tone-deaf. I was all for giving Reiser the benefit of the doubt as long as he wasn't convicted but it looked bad from the start and the way he lied about it means that that name can not today or forever be associated with something that requires trust in an…
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I'm extremely neurotypical and I also don't care what things are named. People who get hung up on this are bikeshedding, commenting about murderFS for twenty years and holding back genuine innovations because of their thin skin and lack of actual inclination to talk about technical details.
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You are really insulting your fellow commenters here. If you truly inhabit a healthy, antifragile state of mind, you must realize that many of us are not as enlightened and do have emotional reactions to things like this. It doesn't mean we are inferior, it just means we are human.
This fragility does not make you a lesser person; I extend my hand to you as an equal, my brother. I hope you do the same when I am misguided or weakened in any manner myself.
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#65Now that's a file system to die for!
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think you might just be trolling, but in case you are not, I do not see how selection bias applies here. I (or anyone else) did not select any comments here. Close, or maybe even actual, 100% of the comments here are about the issue with the name, so unless you want to insinuate that the HN community responding to this is not in any way representative of people who care about filesystems, there is hardly a bias her…
You imply that comments are representative of the attitude towards reiserfs in general population. It seems more likely to me that overly emotional people, regardless of their interest in filesystems, got triggered and wrote a bunch of comments even without clicking the link.
There is a vastness of comments about the name. They all must be written by trolls.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
You imply that comments are representative of the attitude towards reiserfs in general population. It seems more likely to me that overly emotional people, regardless of their interest in filesystems, got triggered and wrote a bunch of comments even without clicking the link.
There is a vastness of comments about the name. They all must be written by trolls.
I've said nothing about trolls.
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#68Parole Suitability Hearing: March 05, 2020
Parole Eligible Date: 01/2020
Current Location: Correctional Training Facility
Admission Date: 09/05/2008
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
Branding isn't a very logical science; so sure they probably should. Them and the GNU Image Manipulation Program, which has 100% lost users because of the stupid name. That said, we also need to be able to separate the good and bad people do. Reiser in his capacity as a programmer is really a different entity to him in his capacity as a murderer. Celebrating one is not celebrating the other. It is the stereotypical e…
GIMP changing its name seems pointless at this point, especially because of where the conversations there led. It would have been smarter for them to argue that "gimp" is a sexual term, and therefore gross, rather than an antiquated ableist term, because the former is more common than the latter usage (which is never used). Reiser's accomplishments are already out there, there's no need to continue with his name on s…
I think the "antiquated ableist" form is used for GIMP, but more as a verb than a noun.
"FooCorp will gimp the 700LC with a 30-watt power limit, ensuring it won't compete with the full-performance 700.".
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> tl;dr : Reiser is just a name. It was recently the name of a 'bad guy', but it hasn't always been, and won't always be. It's a filesystem created by and named after a murderer. Just because you're fine with it does not mean everybody is.
Caring about the name is neurotic and childish. When it's no longer a filesystem named after a murderer, it will still be a filesystem inspired and created by a murderer. And it'd be equally stupid to refuse to use it on these grounds alone. Those complaining are indulging in the thrill of cheap activism more than engaging their rational mind, and giving into their demands merely enables pointless noise-making at bes…
The Reiser filesystem will continue to be used by those who understand its value, despite its bad reputation within a small niche of people[0].
On a more on-topic point: my experience has led me to believe that the Reiser fs (Reiser4) has a narrow use case only when quick operations (seek/read/write) on an inordinate amount (hundreds of thousands+) of small (I failed to find any other use in my experiences with it.
I was quite surprised when I initially ran out of inodes my first go-around, as well.
[0] Really, no one cares that much. Whenever the name comes up in less formal circles, obligatroy low-effort "dead wife" jokes surface, but what usually follows is discussion on the filesystem's merits. The outrage is from a vocal minority that I would deduce aren't in any position where choice of filesystem is of their concern.