Interview With Reiser4 Author Hans Reiser

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 13, 2005 @03:54AM from the protect-your-bits dept.

An anonymous reader writes "KernelTrap has an interesting interview with Hans Reiser, the author of two revolutionary Linux filesystems, Reiser3 and Reiser4. Reiser3 was the first journaling Linux filesystem. Reiser4 is a complete rewrite that is claimed to offer amazing performance and a new plugin architecture offering semantic enhancements to rival Microsoft's WinFS and Apple's Spotlight. Comparing Reiser4 to WinFS, Reiser says in the interview, "Reiser4 is a much more mature design, representing a 10 year effort"."

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Re:Hans and Franz by Omnifarious · 2005-09-13 04:58 · Score: 0, Flamebait

ext2 and ext3 need to be counted among the ranks of pathetic filesystems. IMHO, any 'modern' filesystem that handles a directory containing thousands of small files so incredibly inefficiently is awful, and should be migrated away from.

I'm highly disappointed that I cannot get a Linus kernel with reiser4 in it yet.

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