[HN Gopher] Reiser5 ___________________________________________________________________ Reiser5 Author : alexclear Score : 45 points Date : 2020-01-01 17:52 UTC (5 hours ago) (HTM) web link (marc.info) (TXT) w3m dump (marc.info) | kick wrote: | The tech is still incredibly impressive, I just wish they'd | rename it. | ironMann wrote: | New allocator idea sounds a lot like the metaslab approach used | in ZFS. | TazeTSchnitzel wrote: | _"Hans Thomas Reiser (born December 19, 1963) is an American | computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer."_ | | Not a great association for a name, is it? | maayank wrote: | My thoughts exactly. It's a shame that such interesting | developments are shadowed by the brand-name and infamy. | mike_hock wrote: | Right? Imagine running a company under the name Hitler Inc. | after the end of world war 2. The name just needlessly taints | the project which is (obviously) not run by the convicted | murderer anymore. | joyjoyjoy wrote: | Why not? | | http://www.iaauae.org/media- | files/2007/10/16/20071016_Hitler... | gerdesj wrote: | I agree. I used to use reiserfs on everything I touched back in | the day: Mandrake, SuSE etc. When Hans R became toxic and ext4 | happened to suddenly fit the bill, I followed the rest of the | herd and reiserfs3 rapidly fell off the top n filesystem | charts. I remember reiser doing some things much, much faster | than say ext2, eg directory listing with lots of files. It also | seemed to know when to repair itself on boot and simply do the | right thing - that would be the journalling that ext2 didn't | have and ext3/4 took a while to get working properly. | | They could call it rfs or something, anything but reiserfs. | joyjoyjoy wrote: | "much faster than say ext2" | | Mordsschnell! | xorcist wrote: | It wouldn't be uncalled for. The past ten years' worth of | patches have pretty much come from Edward Shishkin. I can only | imagine the work required to keep such a large codebase | maintained out of kernel during that time. | | The ideas described in the linked email looks quite original, | too. The abstraction level between blocks and files have always | been a leaky one. It would been interesting to see them | implemented. I guess it would require a lot more RAM to be | effective but that might not be an impediment these days. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-01-01 23:00 UTC)