Pushing Reiser4 Is "Not Of High Priority"

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Pushing Reiser4 Is "Not Of High Priority"

Edward Shishkin, the lone developer that took over development of the Reiser4 file-system following the conviction of Hans Reiser, has shared a new update with Phoronix regarding the efforts towards pushing Reiser4 into the mainline Linux kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTAwMjA

[Alejandro Nova]

Well, at least those wackos linking the demise of Reiser4 to Jewish conspiracies I've seen here before will have answers... in front of their nose...

[FireBurn]

It's a shame as Reiser4's compression heuristics are far more advanced than BtrFS, which is either compress or don't compress

[RealNC]

Please don't assassinate the English language. It's not even my native language, but reading that makes me wanna go blind :P

"it's development has been stagnate" -> "its development has been stagnant".

[BlackStar]

Please don't assassinate the English language. It's not even my native language, but reading that makes me wanna go blind :P

"it's development has been stagnate" -> "its development has been stagnant".

Or "its development has stagnated". Phoronix could really use an editor, even a volunteer. The content in the articles tends to be very interesting, but the delivery can sometimes leave something to be desired (understandable, given the workload for a single person).

[curaga]

+1 to guest articles and/or more editors.

[Azpegath]

Isn't it pushing it saying "Reiser4 had a bright future until Hans Reiser was arrested"? He was always fighting with the kernel devs, never making changes they wanted/demanded for inclusion, etc etc.

I think Reiser4 is very promising, and it feels like they really need to get it in if they want to speed up development. There is a reason why we have the "next-tree" and even the new staging drivers (or as it staging area?). If they finally get it in, I think the development will speed up greatly, both from a testing view and number of people interested in using it.

But since it's a file system, I guess there's now much room for "instability". But Btrfs was included very early on, despite this.

[admiral0]

Solution:

Give Hans 3 hours a day for coding and see how the fs gains life again.... LOL

[Azpegath]

Give Hans 3 hours a day for coding and see how the fs gains life again.... LOL

This is actually a good idea. Why not let the man do something that (he's good at and) other people can actually gain from?

[admiral0]

That unfortunately will never happen. No one cares except us. And to be honest i would prefer reiser4 to btrfs. (read the wiki pages)