On Sunday 13 May 2007 09:54, George Osvald wrote:
> I don't understand why anyone would pay any money for the
> company. ReiserFS being open source anone can just take over the project
> and not pay a dime.
Namesys is currently a company (two full time developers, and a score
of
volunteers) who make their money providing service support (howto's for a
price) and custom work. They are funded in part by a grant from DARPA, some
funding from SUSE (maybe that has been curtailed, don't know) and others.
They have frozen reiserfs 3.6 and are only working on what few bugs come in,
and the thrust of active development (which believe it or not is still
ongoing) to get Reiser4 into the mainline kernel. (Reiser4 is about four(4)
times faster than the nearest competitive fs--- its amazing) So, there's the
name, the organization, the infrastructure--- the contacts, and so forth.
But you are absolutely right about the fork... believe it or not I am
half
tempted to take the project on myself. I mean, a few pots of coffee and eight
weeks with the source and I'll support the blasted thing... its just code
people!! But, there are dozens of developers (mostly in Russia I guess) that
already have a handle on reiserfs and with a little support and encouragement
can probably support it better than Hans did... it is almost universally
recognized that Hans has the social skills of a summer squash... and is very
difficult to deal with even on a good day... so maybe having him fall under
the bus (so to speak) will be a good thing for the file system group he has
been leading. I mean the architecture is locked in... they just need a good
team leader and a little hutzpah --- you know, and some good 'ol
encouragement (and maybe some money).
The thing is that the technical advantages of reiserfs are too great to
let
the whole thing just drop through the cracks in the floor. You know what I
mean ? But its just whooey to believe that Hans has somehow developed a set
of dancing b*trees that only *he* understands... give me a break. Well, for
one thing he named the filesystem after himself... that should tell you
something. Code is code is code... if you understand the linux kernel, and
have written a driver or two, you can figure out what Hans has done... with a
little time and the source. Actually, its almost all about time.
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Kind regards,
M Harris <><
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