>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.
Incidentally, the namesys team and Hans is already part of SuSE AG (research &
development group for SuSE) with offices in russia, czech, munich, hungary, uk, phils.
Though he developed reiserfs all by himself, SuSE contributed much more than seed
money (hans is on suse's paycheck) but including talent to make reiserfs as it is
right now (much of our own kernel people did a lot of cleaning of the RSF code).
it may not be politically correct to say SuSE "developed Reiserfs" but it has survived
as a SuSE centric (as hans would coined it) feature compared to the more popular
REDHAT.
one can admit that their is still a thriving open source politics in linux that
dismayed hans into saying that politics and not technical specifics has keept away
reiserfs from the mainline kernel.
well thats just my two cents worth.
L. Perens
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