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Ask ReiserFS Project Leader Hans Reiser
Hans Reiser leads a successful Free Software project that has attracted plenty of attention, many users, and even that Holy Grail of so many who have started their own Free or Open Source projects: Big-time funding from DARPA, SuSE, and others. How did he do it? What's his advice for other project leaders? Ask him! And ask him any other question you have in mind. Please stick to one question per post, and avoid questions that can be answered with a few minutes' worth of research. We'll publish Mr. Reiser's answers as soon as he gets them back to us.
That's right... real fast, smootch.
sux0rz.
Have you seen my panties?
When will ReiserFS be as good as NTFS?
Why do you hate America?!!
Why are you such a blow hard egotist who thinks he is the greatest hacker on this planet because he created a medoicre filesystem that few people use? I mean, I can understand that Theo De'Raadt has always been an asshole, but at least he manages an entire Operating System. All you have is a pissy little filesystem that doesn't do anything that others havn't been doing for decades and looses data all the time anyway. Whats up with that?
To say the truth. I don't like ReiserFS it's simply overhyped and caused a lot of dataloss and crap during the days back when I used it on 2.4.x Kernels. One of the biggest problems was when for some strange reasons something locked up or you are forced to do a hardreset (This doesn't happen every time but in some rare cases) then you reboot and your system in the first moment looked like it's in normal condition and then after some days of using you then find out that some files contents are full with binary trash. But not only 1 or 2 files, nearly 10-20 files (if not more) are affected by this. ReiserFS was meant to avoid these things to happen but they happen. These are just some worst case scenarios same can be said when the power turns off from the power supplier e.g. storm hits or other natural catastropy that caused them to turn it off. These are only one situation where ReiserFS totally sucked balls I never thrusted it again and switched over to XFS. With XFS I never had any serious datalosses again no matter how often you needed to hardreset or other strange stuff. You can even sit infront of your computer and force press the resetbutton in a regular loop and it doesn't fuck the system up as much as ReiserFS did. So please don't misunderstand me but ReiserFS is overhyped and not worth to be thrusted. This report as I am telling here now is confirmed from many other users around the world. You can even google for that.
If you want a rockstable filesystem then use:
- ext2
- xfs
everything else throw in the trash.
Why are you such a dick?
n -d evel-200304/msg01295.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debia
Hans. How come, with such a featurefull filesystem, I can't tune a fish? :)
Why ReiserFS? Because it's really fucking good.
Well, perhaps it's his own fault.
Read this thread, and you'll glimpse into the world of Hans Reiser and HIS FUD.