Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on October 13, 2006 11:52 PM
I'm a ReiserFS user as well, and dislike the switch of 'default' to ext3. The only reason I see the switch to ext3 is that it is much more widely supported than reiserfs, and has an upgrade path. I only wonder what kind of filesystem Reiser 3/4 would be if 1/10th the support and work that has been expended on ext3 was spent instead on reiserfs's.
I lay most of this at the feet of Mr. Reiser. His attitude towards improving 3.6 and providing a clean upgrade path from 3.6 is probably as much a cause of this as anything. He has also ruffled quite a few feathers with Reiser4, in particular with the kernel developers. I suspect any fair minded person would conclude he is being treated like a red-headed stepchild by those same developers. That same person would also find that a good bit of blame should be laid on his doorstep as well. I find it particularly galling that ext4 has been accepted to the development kernel, while Hans has been fighting for over a year to get Reiser4 into the kernel. I know it's inevitable, but I hate to see the spectre of politics and buddy networks raising their ugly head in what should be a purely technical consideration. Hans is brilliant, but like many brilliant people his drive for technical excellence seems to be seen as arrogance.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on October 13, 2006 11:52 PMI'm a ReiserFS user as well, and dislike the switch of 'default' to ext3. The only reason I see the switch to ext3 is that it is much more widely supported than reiserfs, and has an upgrade path. I only wonder what kind of filesystem Reiser 3/4 would be if 1/10th the support and work that has been expended on ext3 was spent instead on reiserfs's.
I lay most of this at the feet of Mr. Reiser. His attitude towards improving 3.6 and providing a clean upgrade path from 3.6 is probably as much a cause of this as anything. He has also ruffled quite a few feathers with Reiser4, in particular with the kernel developers. I suspect any fair minded person would conclude he is being treated like a red-headed stepchild by those same developers. That same person would also find that a good bit of blame should be laid on his doorstep as well. I find it particularly galling that ext4 has been accepted to the development kernel, while Hans has been fighting for over a year to get Reiser4 into the kernel. I know it's inevitable, but I hate to see the spectre of politics and buddy networks raising their ugly head in what should be a purely technical consideration. Hans is brilliant, but like many brilliant people his drive for technical excellence seems to be seen as arrogance.
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