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Interview With Reiser4 Author Hans Reiser

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Homework by mysqlrocks · · Score: 3, Funny

    Berkeley was a lot better than junior high school, but it still involved homework, which deep down in my heart I could never believe in.

    I hear you. I always avoided homework as much as possible too.

    --
    Bradley Holt
  2. WinFS? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Does that actually exist?

    I thought It was dead...

    Let's try to keep our comparisons to real entities...

  3. Hans and Franz by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I am Hans, and this is Franz, and we want to [clap] journal your filesystem.
    Ya. Ya. All you little girly men with your FAT and NTFS!
    Really, Ya. Makes me sad to see such pathetic file systems!

    1. Re:Hans and Franz by Alien+Being · · Score: 3, Funny

      On our keyboards we admins did pound.
      It was quite a thunderous sound.
      Some bastard named Hans
      taught his trees how to dance.
      Now our files are in lost+found

    2. Re:Hans and Franz by RealProgrammer · · Score: 2, Funny

      There once was a hacker named Hans,
      Who taught his B-trees how to dance.
      When unlinking filenames,
      Each inode proclaims,
      Our FS pwns Bill girly man's!

      --
      sigs, as if you care.
  4. Re:Maturity by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was trolling.

  5. 10 years? by jshaped · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Reiser4 ... representing a 10 year effort"

    obligatory comment:

    by the time longhorn (vista?) is released, it too will be a 10+ year effort.

  6. Re:Maturity by Nigel_Powers · · Score: 2, Funny

    He struck me as having a disdain for authority and a dislike of hierarchy for the sake of hierarchy. I would think he's highly creative with a touch of genius. The proof is in his filesystem.

    I'm much the same way -- well, except I'm a dumbass.

  7. Re:Maturity by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 1, Funny

    The emotional maturity of the author seems irrelevant to the benchmarks for the filesystem.

    Hey, if the emotional maturity of Bill Gates was related to the quality of his OS, th...

    nevermind.

  8. Re:Huh ? by operagost · · Score: 1, Funny
    WinFS is not a filesystem
    Ironic, eh? Kind of like "GNU is Not Unix."
    --

    Gamingmuseum.com: Give your 3D accelerator a rest.
  9. Re:Huh ? by manyoso · · Score: 3, Funny

    "/WinFS is not a filesystem/"

    Then what does the FS stand for in the name? "Full 'o Shit"?

    And on the other side, I think I'm going to trust that Hans fucking Reiser knows what a filesystem is. Idiot.

  10. Re:Kernel vs User Mode for filesystem by hansreiser · · Score: 2, Funny

    Ah that's hilarious, ok, yeah, it was Linus saying it. Apologies for not remembering and thinking it was someone at MS.:-))) Can't imagine why the poster put my name on it though.....

    Hans Reiser

  11. Just 3 and 4? by JourneyExpertApe · · Score: 2, Funny

    ...Hans Reiser, the author of two revolutionary Linux filesystems, Reiser3 and Reiser4.

    So who authored Reiser1 and Reiser2? Was it Paul Reiser? Do you have to be named Reiser to work on the filesystem, or was it just a coincidence? Inquiring minds want to know.

    --
    If you can read this sig, you're too close.
  12. Re:Filesystems in Userspace, Dammit! by abdulla · · Score: 2, Funny
    I think it's very possible that the next big open source OS is going to have a great microkernel as its killer feature.
    Do you mean GNU/Hurd? :)
    The L4 microkernel architecture does seem quite impressive though.