On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:31:06PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-11-03 12:00:03, schrieb Volkan YAZICI: > > I really wonder the future of ReiserFS. I don't follow kernel related > > improvements (and discussions) that much, but I still don't have a > > reliable information about the development issues with ReiserFS. > > Somebody is saying something, and another one is duplicating it -- > > without giving a single grain of thought -- to others and so on. But > > AFAIK, there still isn't any official (you know what I mean by > > _official_) explanation related with ReiserFS. Yep, Hans Reiser did some > > nasty things. But would development of Linux stop if Linus Torvalds gets > > in some sort of trouble, e.g. arrested? > > This is NOT the same, since ReiserFS was generaly developed by ONE KEY > PERSON "Hans Reiser" where the Linux Kernel itself has several 1000 > contributors which can take over at any time... > > Of course, ReiserFS is only a small part of the Kernel and they are > enough other FileSystems...
Reiserfs was developed by a company (namesys, Hans Reiser's company). It has great problems getting merged into the mainline kernel because it behaves a bit strange. For instance, each file there is also a directory. Too many programs assume that if something is a file it will not have anything under it in the tree. There are still other people who think that reiserfs4 is a good idea and try to merge it, but even before the trial it didn't move along very well. reiserfs3 (the one in the kernel) is now even less actively maintained. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
