On 09/27/2015 10:09 AM, Xen wrote:
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
I too have had good experiences with Reiserfs over the years.
But I'm curious, why is Reiserfs a "dead end"? I get it, nobody cares, but why? Is it because Hans is a knuckle-head?
When you get convicted and end up in jail, your life is gone. It is just over. But you are not dead yet.
I think it is this stale-mate that causes the project/product to also end up in a stalemate. You could call it hibernation.
That is just my explanation. People usually don't consider what happens to you or your life if you end up in jail.
Or something similar.
Right about Hans, but if Reiserfs has so many good design features, why wasn't it forked? After all, it happened to ssh. Or, is there some licensing issue? Or did Hans' personality contaminate the code? BTW, I once got a snarky email from Hans in response to a question about a Reiserfs-intrinsic dump program. I was fond of a variant of the Grandfather-father-son dump strategy at that time and he told me to get my head out of my ... and use tar instead. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org