[LUGSB] Hans Reiser led police to his wife's body

[Josef 'Jeff' Sipek]

On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:45:13PM -0400, Erez Zadok wrote:
> In message <4873D93E.6050607 at sukhanov.net>, "Ilya Sukhanov (dotCOMmie)" writes:
> 
> > Is there any interim project leader for ReiserFS or the company even?
> 
> I don't know.  Does anyone?
> 
> Reiser3 hasn't had much change in a while, which may be ok; I'm not sure if
> SuSE still supports it full time.  Does SuSE still use reiser3 as their
> default f/s?

Yes and no. SuSE still supports Reiserfs, but the default fs is ext3
(grrrr).

> Reiser4 has been in -mm for a long time, and other than cosmetic patches,
> I've not seen much submitted to it.

I don't really think it's going anywhere...except maybe thrown out of -mm
for being useless...keep in mind that Reiser4 fragments really quickly and
the defragmentor tool (use of which is effectively mandatory) is NOT open
source, but rather a pay-for thing owned by Namesys. I don't know who owns
Namesys, or if Hans released the tool into open source, but I seriously
doubt that he has (he never cared about the ideas of open source).

> And every day that passes, ext4 is getting more stable and

I'm just afraid that ext4 will not be all that useful when it is done. 

> xfs getting better. 

Yeah, it's actually amazing - they just squeze more and more
performance/etc. out of it.

> And at some point BTFS will be good enough for people to start really
> using.

Spelling fix: btrfs :) As in BuTteR FS, or B-TRee FS :)

> Eventually I suspect reiser4 will just fade away and be dropped from -mm.
 
Agreed.

Jeff.

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