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

[Scott Blaydes]

Even is Namesys is gone, ReiserFS still can live on. Open source 
software is protected from dying when the supporting company goes 
bye-bye, no matter if the owner is a murderer, gets hit by a bus, or 
just gives up on the business.  With out the company, we still have 
what?  We still have the source!  Sure the source might not get the 
attention that it once had while Hans was a free man, but that doesn't 
mean it is going to get worse either.

Thank you,
Scott Blaydes

Ralph wrote:
> Howdy,
>   Well, I would say sure, it is less reliable.  But, the more important
> question is maintenance for the long term.  For example, try to go to
> namesys.com.  The domain is offline.  The company is pretty much
> dissolved, as I understand it.  So, I can see why people would be
> concerned about using it long term.  I suspect it will work out, but
> Reiser has always been a little flaky.  I  use it and I don't mean that
> to sound too bad, but it does get patched more than any other
> filesystem, as far as I can see.
> Good day,
> Ralph
> 
> On Tue, 2008-07-08 at 09:33 -0700, steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
>> 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?
> 
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