I don't understand why anyone would pay any money for the company. ReiserFS being open source anone can just take over the project and not pay a dime. Namesys is currently a company (two full time developers, and a score of volunteers) who make their money providing service support (howto's for a
On Sunday 13 May 2007 09:54, George Osvald wrote: price) and custom work. They are funded in part by a grant from DARPA, some funding from SUSE (maybe that has been curtailed, don't know) and others. They have frozen reiserfs 3.6 and are only working on what few bugs come in, and the thrust of active development (which believe it or not is still ongoing) to get Reiser4 into the mainline kernel. (Reiser4 is about four(4) times faster than the nearest competitive fs--- its amazing) So, there's the name, the organization, the infrastructure--- the contacts, and so forth. But you are absolutely right about the fork... believe it or not I am half tempted to take the project on myself. I mean, a few pots of coffee and eight weeks with the source and I'll support the blasted thing... its just code people!! But, there are dozens of developers (mostly in Russia I guess) that already have a handle on reiserfs and with a little support and encouragement can probably support it better than Hans did... it is almost universally recognized that Hans has the social skills of a summer squash... and is very difficult to deal with even on a good day... so maybe having him fall under the bus (so to speak) will be a good thing for the file system group he has been leading. I mean the architecture is locked in... they just need a good team leader and a little hutzpah --- you know, and some good 'ol encouragement (and maybe some money). The thing is that the technical advantages of reiserfs are too great to let the whole thing just drop through the cracks in the floor. You know what I mean ? But its just whooey to believe that Hans has somehow developed a set of dancing b*trees that only *he* understands... give me a break. Well, for one thing he named the filesystem after himself... that should tell you something. Code is code is code... if you understand the linux kernel, and have written a driver or two, you can figure out what Hans has done... with a little time and the source. Actually, its almost all about time. -- Kind regards, M Harris <>< -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org