On 2015-09-27 22:26, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
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?
No, no. R 3 is fully in the kernel, and as far as the original developers are concerned (ie, Mr Reiser and his group), it is out of their hands completely. They instead focused in R 4. However, when Mr Reiser got imprisoned, his group tried to continue, and did so, but without his leadership they seem to progress very slowly. Maybe he was a brilliant designer, after all. So reiserfs version 4 does exist and is being developed. If you search for "reiser" at opensuse, you see it. However, I have not investigated how to install it, or how "safe" it is.
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.
Doesn't surprise me much. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar)