Hans Reiser Apologies For Social Mistakes, Comments On ReiserFS Deprecation From Prison

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Hans Reiser Apologies For Social Mistakes, Comments On ReiserFS Deprecation From Prison

ReiserFS file-system creator Hans Reiser who is currently remains imprisoned in California for murdering his wife in 2006 has commented on the Linux kernel mailing list by way of a letter exchange from prison...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hans-Reiser-2024

[ezst036]

Food for the trolls.

[V1tol]

Time to read lengthy novels about how ReiserFS was a perfect filesystem and too bad nobody picked up its development. Especially from people who never used it and never wrote any code.

[avis]

Time to read lengthy novellas about how ReiserFS was a perfect filesystem and too bad nobody picked up its development. Especially from people who never used it and never wrote any code.

No, it wasn't.

This one is absolutely worth reading if you wanna learn about ReiserFS history more and the man who Hans has seemingly become.

[Ironmask]

All good, water under the bridge and all that. Guess we can all go back to using WifeKillerFS.

[avis]

All good, water under the bridge and all that. Guess we can all go back to using WifeKillerFS.

The punishment/prison system exists precisely so that we can legally and morally forgive people for their crimes. Otherwise we may as well return to the death penalty for almost everything including petty theft. You don't want that, do you?

And the police exists precisely so that we can keep an eye on people's behavior once they've served their time.

Maybe today it's the time not to talk about his crime but his work and contributions to Linux.

[schmidtbag]

Ignoring the creator, is there really any benefit to using ReiserFS nowadays? I never really understood what made it so special in the first place. I imagine it isn't well-optimized for SSDs.

[avis]

Ignoring the creator, is there really any benefit to using ReiserFS nowadays? I never really understood what made it so special in the first place. I imagine it isn't well-optimized for SSDs.

Back in the day ReiserFS was the first (as far as I remember) Linux FS with journalling and it was a lot faster than ext2/ext3 when working with a large number of small files. I've never used its tail packing feature because I remember it led to files being lost or broken when the system wasn't properly shut down.

[panikal]

reiserfs had journaling, b+ tree design with tail-packing. There's a reason suse used it as their default filesystem for so long, it kept or beat ext3 and had an actual *design* and *vision* for mature filesystems and a single highly driven developer. I used xfs at work even then but reiserfs had its place on my desktop home.

Whatever benefits it had disappeared by the time ext4 was mature, and whatever future it had died with Hans' wife. This letter is an attention grab.

[hf_139]

Time to read lengthy novels about how ReiserFS was a perfect filesystem and too bad nobody picked up its development. Especially from people who never used it and never wrote any code.

RaiserFS was very good filesystem when you are dealing with many many small files.
Which is a situation that i am currently in and i created squashfs images because i hit the ext4 inode limit.