On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 09:24:44PM -0400, Paul Robert Marino wrote: > > OK well reiserfs is actually EXT2 with a journal slapped on top of it just > like EXT3 so you can try mounting it as readonly EXT2 though admittedly I > haven't tried it it should work in theory, but certainly can't hurt if you > try it in read only mode. >
Sheesh. The guy goes to jail and today nobody even remembers what he was all about. reiserfs is not EXT2, not XFS, not flash-fs, not ZFS, not AFS, not ... It was much better than all of them in exactly 1 way - it was built to efficiently handle large number of small files. With reiserfs: a) a "hello world!" file does not occupy 4k of disk space (tail packing) b) "rm -rf /" takes 1 second (try to delete some files from ZFS, lucky ot be done by tomorrow). c) "ls -ltR /" does not take 10 days It was very good while it lasted. Of course today everybody wants checksums, and dedup, and built-in raid, and snapshots, and ... and so reiserfs joins the Dodo bird, the steam-powered airplane, and the home made icecream as fond memory of last year's trees were taller, grass was greener. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser K.O. > Original Message > From: [email protected] > Sent: July 18, 2017 8:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: reiserfs? > > On 07/18/2017 05:33 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:04 PM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi All, > >> > >> I need to read a reiserfs partition on a flash drive. > >> Any words of wisdom? > > > > *Why* ? reiserfs has languished since the arrest of Hans Reiser for > > murdering his wife. And much like ReiserFS, Hans claimed complete > > innocence until actually looking at evidence proved that her sudden > > absence was entirely his fault. > > > > Hi Niko, > > Ya, no fooling! :-) > > I was trying to read the reiserfs partition on my > Knoppix Live USB drive. > > I eventuality qemu-kvm boot the flash drive and used > cifs to import the data I wanted from my Samba server > > -T -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
