[NTLUG:Discuss] Time to switch away from ReiserFS?

Fred Hensley fred at hensleyhome.org
Tue Jul 8 11:42:27 CDT 2008


steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
>> Well, it's official.  Hans is going away for a long, long time...
>>
>> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,377665,00.html
>>
>> So, it may be time to transition away from the Reiser file system for
>> the foreseeable future, eh?
>>     
>
> Why?  Is code written by convicted murderers somehow less reliable?  So
> long as there is a team working on it - does it really matter what
> happened to its original author?
>
>
>   
Your reply (indirectly) begs precisely the right question.  Who will be
supporting it now that the author is cooling his heels for 25 to life?

I for one won't wait to see, and am making some course corrections to
another journaling file system.

ymmv,

-Fred-





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