On Wed, 15 Nov 2000, logan perens wrote:
..
> there is so much more to gain rather than loss when upgrading to
> reiserfs vs. ext2.
One word: quotas.
..
> it not being in the mainline kernel yet should not be a deterrent. in
> fact this is the breather that linux has been waiting to make it
> compete in the enterprise. SuSE, who designed Reiserfs thru Hans
> Reiserf, has taken a bold step to integrate it in the distro together
..
Thats unnecessarily vainglorious coming from someone who works for
SuSE. I've been following ReiserFS since 1997 or 1998, when it was just a
research project into using spanning trees for data storage (there was no
journaling on ReiserFS back then -- that's why there still exists a
reiserfsck utility).
Hans Reiser initially did the development all by himself. When he returned
to Russia, he founded a team (Namesys) to continue development, and
started soliciting commercial sponsors to help pay for it. SuSE is ONE of
those sponsors, but I believe it was only last year that they joined.
It's somewhat of a stretch to claim that SuSE "developed.. ReiserFS." It's
been around for a LONG time (way before the SGI FailSafe stuff was
released) and SuSE is a SPONSOR. Main development is still being done by
Namesys.
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