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Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by lillecarl »

andix wrote: post #23
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.

Wouldn’t it be better to keep such files inside a database?

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html They're selling it quite well here, though integration into other products might be the hard thing.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by hughrr »

lillecarl wrote: post #31
andix wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn’t it be better to keep such files inside a database?

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html They're selling it quite well here, though integration into other products might be the hard thing.

Add https://github.com/guardianproject/libsqlfs

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by pmarreck »

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.

yeah I'd stick all of those as blobs inside a sqlite or other db

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by more_corn »

daneel_w wrote: post #13
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.

Isn’t it relevant though? The sole author and support person is AFK for the foreseeable future.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by pmarreck »

mcronce wrote: post #30
frostwarrior wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because companies may not want to be involved in a product called "PersonWhoIsConvictedWithMurder-FS". Let history be. But rename the project to something like ChameleonFS. Hans Reiser's mentions will still be in the git history.

At my previous job, we used reiserfs. We generally referred to it internally as murderfs. Not that I think that's good rebranding, but it did amuse us.

This sounds like it would have been a fun place to work

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by tych0 »

lillecarl wrote: post #31
andix wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wouldn’t it be better to keep such files inside a database?

https://www.sqlite.org/fasterthanfs.html They're selling it quite well here, though integration into other products might be the hard thing.

In my experience, integration with products is not really that hard. I've used sqlite3 bindings in half a dozen languages over the years, and they are generally fairly robust.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by pmarreck »

cestith wrote: post #29

Personally I've always really liked ReiserFS. The collected storage of small files, the storage of the tails of files, the balanced tree structure, and the fast journaling gave better performance in reads, writes, boot time, and storage efficiency than most file systems. The focus on small files, which were and arguably still are most files on a typical system, was a big key to this. It made it ideal for storing thin…

Hear, hear on replacing reiserfs with bcachefs. Kent Overstreet could use the support, the project looks good, and to my knowledge he is not a murderer.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by indymike »

ReiserFS has been stable for a long time, and especially useful for spinning metal disks that need to store lots and lots of small files. Not sure that there is a modern replacement that will be able to do this well.

Re: Is it time to remove reiserfs?

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Post by pmarreck »

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?

I've seen plenty of forks that were also renames
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