Feature comparison of file systems -- no other file system has all the features of ReiserFS or Reiser4: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
Looks like ZFS does? (especially now that it does have native encryption)
The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
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Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#42Feature comparison of file systems -- no other file system has all the features of ReiserFS or Reiser4: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
"Murders Your Wife"
... How did that make it into Wikipedia? How has it not been removed!?
Edit: Oh, that's an old version. My mistake.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#43Feature comparison of file systems -- no other file system has all the features of ReiserFS or Reiser4: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
You linked to an old version (from 2008!) of that wiki page that contains vandalism (a column labeled "Murders your wife"). Why?
Given your comment "no other file system has all the features of ReiserFS or Reiser4", I am guessing it is a crude and disgusting "joke".
diff between the page you linked and the current version: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#44I was a big fan of ReiserFS “back in the day”. While many are no doubt aware of the trial and conviction for his wife’s murder, I find that almost nobody is aware that a successor (Reiser4) was also in development: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4
I believe it is still in active development and they refuse to change the name for some odd reason. It’s like if kdenlive was named “Weinstein” wouldn’t you want to change it?
You don't get to die on a hill if you don't stay on the hill.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#45I managed a system that really benefitted from Rieser. Reiserfs's idea of a "small file" was 1-2 orders of magnitude smaller than most other filesystems, and this system stored map tiles of the entire globe, many, many of which were 37 byte long all blue tiles. Reiserfs stored it in a fraction of what ext or xfs would take.
Ideally some meta-tile format would have been used, like with mod_tile, or some deduplication or hard linking, but reiserfs just handled it like a champ.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, I get it. I truly do, but part of me hates this idea of names being "burned". This name is a direct link to the person, and he should not be immortalised like that. But other cases (CockroachDB is one) I think people go overboard with getting offended at names. Names typically have power when we only associate them with a single thing. If we have many things with similar names then one of them being terrible,…
> But other cases (CockroachDB is one) And GIMP. Some people just work so hard to get offended by an acronym that happens to also be an almost-unknown slang, that they created a fork called Glimpse. That project declares that the name alone prevented adoption by thousands of companies and universities. If this is true, we should expect Glimpse adoption to skyrocket immediately.
Funnily enough, both projects were started by the same people.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#47As I read this page, 19 comments are about the name, 1 comment is about the file system itself.
If the name were changed:
> Previously known as ReiserFS.
> The guy who made it killed his wife.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But other cases (CockroachDB is one) And GIMP. Some people just work so hard to get offended by an acronym that happens to also be an almost-unknown slang, that they created a fork called Glimpse. That project declares that the name alone prevented adoption by thousands of companies and universities. If this is true, we should expect Glimpse adoption to skyrocket immediately.
> Some people just work so had to get offended by an acronym [...] That's nothing compared to German law: You won't see a single license plate there that has the numbers 18, 28 or 88 on it. Although numbers like 318 or 288 would be fine ...
the numbers 18, 28 or 88
Wikipedia tells me that 88 is a code number for "Heil Hitler".
But what is the significance of 18 or 28?
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hitler was a rare (maybe even unique?) name to begin with, being a spelling variation of "Hiedler" for unknown reasons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alois_Hitler#Change_of_surname
'Adolf' on the other hand went basically extinct.
That's much easier with a first name because they aren't typically passed down. Some families do to an extent, but not like last names.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#50Feature comparison of file systems -- no other file system has all the features of ReiserFS or Reiser4: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparison_of_fil...
Who cares who wrote it? Good code is good code, and Reiser is still often the best option for storing lots of small files.
I don't think it makes sense to change the name, but it's rude and vulgar to deliberately link to an old version of a page that makes fun of someone's murder.