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Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by daneel_w »

anxrn wrote: post #8

I presume by personality they're referring to Hans Reiser, the creator of ReiserFS, also a convicted murderer. Past HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131221

Yes. Pretty much everyone is aware of the elephant in the room. It's just not relevant to address said elephant since it has no bearing on technical discussions, which is what the author of the e-mail thread pro-actively underlined.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by formerly_proven »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #10

ReiserFS does have its benefits in highly specific use-cases. I have a filesystem with an absurd number of tiny files in it. I host a statically rendered wikipedia mirror. Tens of millions of gzipped html-files with a filesize in the range 1-5 Kb. ReiserFS is the only filesystem I know that deals even the slightest bit gracefully with this thanks to tail-packing.

Stuff like this would probably benefit a lot from using a userspace VFS.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by the_mitsuhiko »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #10

ReiserFS does have its benefits in highly specific use-cases. I have a filesystem with an absurd number of tiny files in it. I host a statically rendered wikipedia mirror. Tens of millions of gzipped html-files with a filesize in the range 1-5 Kb. ReiserFS is the only filesystem I know that deals even the slightest bit gracefully with this thanks to tail-packing.

Have you tried btrfs? It has tail packing, block subdivision and inline files.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by kerneloftruth »

mpalczewski wrote: post #14
anxrn wrote: post #8

I presume by personality they're referring to Hans Reiser, the creator of ReiserFS, also a convicted murderer. Past HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2131221

Anything to prevent them from changing the name of the filesystem?

Why erase history? It happened, and it's interesting.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by Jiejeing »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #10

ReiserFS does have its benefits in highly specific use-cases. I have a filesystem with an absurd number of tiny files in it. I host a statically rendered wikipedia mirror. Tens of millions of gzipped html-files with a filesize in the range 1-5 Kb. ReiserFS is the only filesystem I know that deals even the slightest bit gracefully with this thanks to tail-packing.

Indeed, I had a partition with a huge number of small files in the ext3 era, and reiserfs was the only one even remotely able to perform decently. I stumbled upon it last week and was happy and surprised to see that reiserfs was not removed.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by koverstreet »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #10

ReiserFS does have its benefits in highly specific use-cases. I have a filesystem with an absurd number of tiny files in it. I host a statically rendered wikipedia mirror. Tens of millions of gzipped html-files with a filesize in the range 1-5 Kb. ReiserFS is the only filesystem I know that deals even the slightest bit gracefully with this thanks to tail-packing.

bcachefs has inline data extents, and should do pretty well here.
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