Hopefully development can continue again in March.
The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
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Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#52The real innovation of ReiserFS was to set up a development environment where they could develop, profile a new feature, repeat, multiple times a day. That's how they got such an amazingly performant FS: Short feedback cycles.
Is there any more information on how they accomplished this?
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
> But what is the significance of 18 or 28?
18 Adolf Hitler
28 Blood and Honour
Same as with 88, the numbers represent the position in the alphabet.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#54I 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
There is even Reiser5: https://lwn.net/ml/linux-kernel/ee55ce28-2434-d3c6-0d2d-2ed1...
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
> But what is the significance of 18 or 28? 18 Adolf Hitler 28 Blood and Honour Same as with 88, the numbers represent the position in the alphabet.
In the American extremist community, 14 would also be on that list, representative of the "Fourteen Words": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteen_Words
As those things go, 14/88 is a relatively common dog whistle.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
> But other cases (CockroachDB is one) I think people go overboard with getting offended at names. But with this name there is a 0.1% chance in any enterprise setting that managers would accept usage of such a DB. At least as long as it's not as mainstream as maybe Redis or MongoDB. (If something is popular enough, the name is to be accepted)
I mean, MongoDB has a pretty unfortunate name depending on where you are from... https://www.dictionary.com/e/slang/mongo/ Didn't seem to get in it's way too much.
Candygram for MongoDB.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#57Reiser is up for parole this year. The hearing is in March. I myself don't have a lot of public respectability, but if you are a CS PhD or occupy a notable position at a tech company you might be able to mail the parole board. Murdering your wife is detestable but I don't think he will ever find another woman to marry him and I don't think he would commit murder under any other circumstances. I don't think he is a continuing danger to society and the world would benefit if Reiser were allowed to continue his work.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#58Reiser is up for parole this year. The hearing is in March. I myself don't have a lot of public respectability, but if you are a CS PhD or occupy a notable position at a tech company you might be able to mail the parole board. Murdering your wife is detestable but I don't think he will ever find another woman to marry him and I don't think he would commit murder under any other circumstances. I don't think he is a co…
there's a lot of "don't think" in your post, and tbh, you're talking about someone who premeditatively killed his wife, hid her body, researched how to get away with murder, plead not guilty, and finally accepted a plea for 2nd degree murder in exchange for giving police the location of his wife's body.
so, "if you're a CS PhD or occupy a notable position at a tech company", i would recommend some introspection on what's more important: justice or a filesystem.
personally, i'm on the side of justice. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#59The real innovation of ReiserFS was to set up a development environment where they could develop, profile a new feature, repeat, multiple times a day. That's how they got such an amazingly performant FS: Short feedback cycles.
Is there any more information on how they accomplished this?
"Plugins"
https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/V4#Software_Libre_...
https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/V4#The_Software_En...
They have some text where it shows they thought deeply about the meaning of names and domains, and how to develop file systems, what is important, etc.
Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)
#60Reiser is up for parole this year. The hearing is in March. I myself don't have a lot of public respectability, but if you are a CS PhD or occupy a notable position at a tech company you might be able to mail the parole board. Murdering your wife is detestable but I don't think he will ever find another woman to marry him and I don't think he would commit murder under any other circumstances. I don't think he is a co…
there's a lot of "don't think" in your post, and tbh, you're talking about someone who premeditatively killed his wife, hid her body, researched how to get away with murder, plead not guilty, and finally accepted a plea for 2nd degree murder in exchange for giving police the location of his wife's body. so, "if you're a CS PhD or occupy a notable position at a tech company", i would recommend some introspection on wh…
Is it really 'justice' if he could have only gotten three years with that plea agreement he turned down?
If anything he's the victim of his own Asperger's for thinking that proof in a court of law is the same thing as a logical proof.