[HN Gopher] Reiser5
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       Reiser5
        
       Author : alexclear
       Score  : 45 points
       Date   : 2020-01-01 17:52 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | 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"
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           | 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.
        
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