Todd Walton wrote:
Why is reiserfs effectively out of the picture? I haven't heard anything about it since the arrest of Hans Reiser story on Slashdot.
A number of reasons. I'm a big fan of reiserfs. I arranged for MP3.com to fund it in the early days. It was the first journalled fs for Linux and we used it extensively on hundreds or thousands of machines and it worked great. But reiserfs has always had a couple of problems: Linus never really liked the way they did things and it always had difficulties getting into the kernel. Hans was not exactly diplomatic and caused a lot of those problems himself. reiser4 was looking especially problematic. But in time that could probably have been resolved. A more serious problem was that there was never really any community support behind it. Only Hans and his paid coders really did much work on it. SuSe did some work on it. But now after this business with Hans they have pulled out. And Hans isn't around to pay the Russian coders so as far as I can tell they aren't working on it anymore and have moved on to other projects. The reiserfs mailing list is pretty much dead. Whether he gets off or not Hans' reputation is trashed. It's not looking good.
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