ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel

[WizardGed]

wlroots was made by a predator we don't see efforts to remove that from compositors

*Citation needed* there are many reasons people who rightly or not get annoyed by drew but I'm not aware of any predator accusations and that's pretty serious.

[AsciiWolf]

RIP. ReiserFS (Reiser4) used to be really great back in its days, but nowadays it hardly has any killer features (pun intended) when compared to other modern fs.

[furtadopires]

RIP ReiserFS

I wasn't the best filesystem out there, but it sure had some killer features

[bkdwt]

Time to remove ext2 and ext3 too.

[NateHubbard]

Time to remove ext2 and ext3 too.

You're too late. From the kernel config...

CONFIG_EXT2_FS: (DEPRECATED) This code is kept as a simple reference for filesystem developers.
CONFIG_EXT3_FS: This config option is here only for backward compatibility. ext3 filesystem is now handled by the ext4 driver.

[toves]

It'd be nice if there was a framework for running filesystems originating out of the kernel in userspace on FUSE. Then it wouldn't be so bad to retire filesystems.

I imagine you could build the user mode Linux kernel target for a kernel with reiserfs support which could be run on a system lacking reiserfs support. The UML process could mount the reiserfs partition or image and then export as a NFS volume to host system.
Probably easier to tar up the contents of the reiserfs volumes and restore onto a supported fs ( ext4 isn't going away anytime soon.)

[toves]

Indeed. 20 years ago reiserfs was the only way to do Maildir at reasonable performance. Nowdays I find that xfs can take a directory with half a million of files and not be completely overwhelmed by it.

Back when reiserfs was mainstream(ish) and I was moving to Maildir/ I recall finding some of the ext4 tuning options made ext4 quite satisfactory. Reiserfs wasn't supported by the distro used nor was xfs which being originally SGI software I would have then generally avoided.

[Ezakimak]

Reiserfs 3 was the best filesystem when it was merged.

Reiser4, which only ever lived out of tree, is the fastest filesystem I ever used.

It unfortunately never got merged due to kernel politics, and likely won't be despite the developers kept working on it past Hans Reiser's incarceration.

Tux3 fs is even faster--yet it also never got merged due to kernel politics.

[KyleSanderson]

Tux3 fs is even faster--yet it also never got merged due to kernel politics.

No, the author fucked off immediately and it's been orphaned for a decade lol. Nothing political about it, it was a science project.

[cmakeshift]

Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code.

And of a lot of emotional baggage, apparently.