to those who don't know what the previous post was about

[rrx]

see:
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/11/REISER.TMP

Hans Reiser is reiserfs Filesystem developer and has been arrested on suspicion of murder of his ex-wife.

Cheers,
RRX

Comments

[77azkkr]

Does this mean it's going to be a killer release ?

[diego001]

I guess Reiser FS will be GNU/Linux's new killer app!

(oh, I'm funny)

reiserfs will NOT be probably a killer release; because

[77azkkr]

recently they decided to remove reiserfs as a default from openSuSe after
about 6 years. Rumors says that Han Reieser himself was in favor of
moving to ext3 as a default instead of reieserFS; see also
"OpenSUSE moving away from reiserfs with 10.2"
in http://lwn.net/Articles/202780/

a mail by Jeff Mahoney from SuSe.

Cheers,
RX

Re: reiserfs will NOT be probably a killer release; because

[zaitcev]

Jeff is right, pretty much.

Back in the day when reiser3 had a clear performance advantage in some situations, we looked at it, and it just wasn't responsible to hoist it upon users. It eats data.