Interview With Reiser4 Author Hans Reiser

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"."

Comments

I noted that bit from the blurb as well...

[jeblucas]

"A 10-year effort", but by whom? Hans and friends? I have a 10-year effort going on being a millionaire right now, but you know who'd be better at it? Someone with a million dollars. Also, what is he implying by saying this effort is 10-years old? Is there 10-year old code in there? Isn't this what Microsoft gets harangued about every time they release an operating system? Or, is he stating that design work and implementation strategies have been in process for 10 years--hasn't Microsoft been making it's own OS's for 22 years? Should we ignore any expertise garnered? If we do, why not ignore efforts Reiser made for Reiser3?

That comment is remarkably infantile. "If I have seen further than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants--DUMB GIANTS THAT SUCK!"

Re:Interface to metadata?

[peragrin]

If your not smart enough to remember how you file things, how are you going to be smart enough to remember the metadata needed to extract the files out of a database?

Second people complain of Resier4's system overhead. What your proposing is every one needs three different computers so they have enough CPU power to play a game. Because that game is going to need to make a few thousand database queries in a short order to load up a map.