Reiser4 Now Available For Linux 4.8 Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Reiser4 Now Available For Linux 4.8 Kernel

While Linux 4.9 will be released in just a few weeks, the remaining Reiser4 file-system developers have just updated their code to support the Linux 4.8 stable kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Reiser4-Linux-4.8

[speculatrix]

if the wikipedia page is correct, Hans Reiser could be out of prison in 2023, so I imagine he will have a huge numbers of bug fixes to commit.. or should I say bugs to kill?

[nils_]

if the wikipedia page is correct, Hans Reiser could be out of prison in 2023, so I imagine he will have a huge numbers of bug fixes to commit!

LOL, oh stop it, you're killing me!

[Passso]

if the wikipedia page is correct, Hans Reiser could be out of prison in 2023, so I imagine he will have a huge numbers of bug fixes to commit!

That's the problem with one man armies. I remember that ReiserFS was fast, reliable and default in many distros... what a giant waste.

[starshipeleven]

That's the problem with one man armies. I remember that ReiserFS was fast, reliable and default in many distros... what a giant waste.

I have different memories.

[Zan Lynx]

That's the problem with one man armies.

Then it's a good thing there is more than one man working on Reiser file systems.

[torsionbar28]

I have different memories.

x2, a few nasty bugs involving data corruption come to mind. Tried ReiserFS a long time ago, didn't see any compelling reason to use it over the other available filesystems at the time. It was fast in some very specific use cases, but I think ext4 and XFS have caught up. Unless you're running some disk-intensive custom application that benchmarks significantly better on Reiser vs. other FS types, I'm not sure why anyone would use it.