ReiserFS File-System Expected To Be Removed With Linux 6.13

[Ununnilium]

In my opinion it is a bad thing that filesystems get ever removed. At least reading should be possible forever so files can be copied from archived disk images / hard disks found years later.

[ayumu]

A filesystem driver has full access to the system regardless if its in userspace or kernel space, it can replace data from the filesystem being loaded by the kernel, including executables.

And that'll affect whoever is using the filesystem, which could be a single program.

However, a bug in a filesystem running inside the kernel, in supervisor mode, can compromise the entire system.

[Britoid]

The elephant in the room: We are even talking about this because Linux is shit, there's no stable APIs for filesystems, and on top of that they run in supervisor mode for no good reason.

A filesystem driver has full access to the system regardless if its in userspace or kernel space, it can replace data from the filesystem being loaded by the kernel, including executables.

[Britoid]

Michael should have posted this article then turned off comments for it since this topic invites nothing but derisive & tasteless comments that add nothing of value ... except for being clickbait.

Please stop trying to kill the mood

[Kemosabe]

Okay I am gonna do it because its probably the last chance to do it:

Yes its time to finally kill reiserfs, Just too bad reiser could not kill it himself.

What do you know about Reiser, what he did? Your comment is an epic expression of immaturity.

[erniv2]

Back in the days ReiserFS was the hot shit, if you had a platter based drive and listend xfs would go crrreeek crrreekkm ceeek, and ext would god creek creek creek , while reiser fs would go creeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee, yes back then you could hear your harddrives, nowdays all those sccreeching harddrives wish they where formated with reiserfs.

[mobadboy]

since i imagine they are looking for something to fill its gap, maybe they could git pull zfs

[ayumu]

The elephant in the room: We are even talking about this because Linux is shit, there's no stable APIs for filesystems, and on top of that they run in supervisor mode for no good reason.

[vladpetric]

With software that is not properly maintained, things f.ing break ... all the f.ing time, especially when used at scale.

The primary filesystems (e.g. ext, xfs) that we use on Linux had their bugs ironed out by virtue of running on so many servers. With BTRFS we were lucky that Mason managed to bamboozle FB/Meta to use it at large scale, and they fixed a lot of bugs that way (not all of them of course ... RAID5/6 are broken at a design level, unfortunately).

What kind of deployment/workload scale did Reiserfs see over the last decade or so? Honestly I'm willing to guess it's less than 10k server years, which is really low of course.

Murder is of course abhorrent but using free software produced by a convicted murderer does not mean condoning murder.

[fitzie]

I used ReiserFS back in the day before EXT3 and JFS were available. It's was one of the worst filesystems I used, only FS used under Linux to eat itself and also had a bad habit of getting slower and slower to the point of bootup taking many times times longer, the longer the filesystem was aged.

ReiserFS was made FAT32 under Windows 9x look robust.

Xiafs was the worst. mostly because of its users.