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Novell Moves Away From ReiserFS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the first-domino dept.

VSquared56 writes, "Novell announced a shift in the default filesystem from ReiserFS to ext3 for users of its SuSE Enterprise Linux. This news comes shortly after Hans Reiser's arrest, though Novell says the decision was being considered long before. Though Novell will continue supporting ReiserFS 3, it claims ext3 is more stable and will 'soon' match performance with the newer ReiserFS 4. What implications will this have for SuSE users, and ReiserFS's future as a whole?"

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  1. Hurm by OverlordQ · · Score: 5, Funny

    What implications will this have for SuSE users

    Well, just a guess . . . but they might have to use a new filesystem!

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  2. Have you ever heard the phrase: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    "Rats are the first to desert a sinking ship"?

  3. The Slashdot Way... by xquark · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think is to have a poll as to measure people's opinions
    about the guy's innocence. With options such as
    1. He is innocent
    2. He is guilty
    3. Cowboyneal did it etc..

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    1. Re:The Slashdot Way... by dvice_null · · Score: 3, Funny

      I think anyone capable of writing a filesystem is capable of killing a person. But also anyone writing an open source software is too kind to kill a person.

  4. Re:xfs for ever by arth1 · · Score: 4, Funny
    why not move to xfs? it's a very good performance file system.


    XFS is high performance especially for large files and multitasked access.
    reiserfs (3) is high performance especially for small files and singletasked access.
    JFS is also a good journalled file system with many nifty features, although perhaps not as mature as XFS.

    unless there a rumours of the author being a murderer of course.


    Neither X nor J have been accused of murder, to my knowledge.

    All hail J.

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  5. You're forgetting by joe_n_bloe · · Score: 5, Funny

    4. The bitch set me up (Marion Barry)
    5. The glove's too tight (OJ)
    6. Is that Chewbacca here? (Chewbacca defense)

    1. Re:You're forgetting by identity0 · · Score: 4, Funny

      7. "I'm just a patsy-OH NO I'VE BEEN SHOT!" (Oswald defence)
      8. "You want the Truth? YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!" (A Few Good Men defence)
      9. "I'm telling you, it wasn't me! It was a one-armed man! You've got to believe me!" (The Fugitive defence)
      10. "These are not the evidence you are lookiing for" (Obi-wan defense)
      11. "That depends on what the definition of 'kill' is." (The Clinton defence)
      12. "Putting this 'evidence' out for anyone to read is helping our terrorist enemies." (The Bush defence)

  6. Re:Let this be a lesson to you all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Crime does not pay!

    Ok, ReiserFS might be a bit on the slow and unstable side, but I would not actually call it a crime.

  7. Re:conversion by Ant+P. · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, in fact someone made a command to do just that: `cp`

  8. Re:It's Deja Vu All over Again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny
    The name "reiserfs" is tainted, whether that's rational or not.


    Apparently it is to be called "icefs" in Etch.

    Something to do with Hans not being available to QA patches by the Debian kernel team.
  9. No one laughed last time... by Chapter80 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I wonder if Reiser 4 "file" system is hidden inside of a cake.

  10. Re:xfs for ever by jazman_777 · · Score: 5, Funny

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  11. Re:It's Deja Vu All over Again by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Funny

    From a marketing point of view, Novell won't want to associated with it either. If they show support for him, and he is found guilty, it's a marketing nightmare for Novell.

    Are you kidding - this stuff practically writes itself.

    1. "Novell and ReiserFS - we have THE killer linux filesystem!"
    2. "Novell and ReiserFS - your files are as secure as the county lockup."
    3. "Novell and ReiserFS - while the jury's out, we continue give you a choice of file systems"
    4. "Novell and ReiserFS - exabytes of data - and only one piece of information missing ..."
    5. "Novell and ReiserFS - no dead inodes, no dead files, no dead bodies ..."
    6. "Novell and ReiserFS - what the fsck?"
  12. Re:Just rename it by kimvette · · Score: 3, Funny

    I hope he is not guilty; I hope that his wife simply tried to pull a scam and is actually OK and is found hiding in Russia or somewhere. Even though it'd have been a scummy thing for her to do, at least their kids would not have lost their mother. That's the single worst part of the whole thing -- oh wait, am I saying "think of the children?" Shoot me now, please!

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  13. Re:xfs for ever by alba7 · · Score: 4, Funny
    If you don't know what you are doing, do not listen to zealots. Stick with the distro default -- which is EXT3/

    If you don't know what you are doing, you should stick with the default "distro".
    And Microsoft recommends NTFS.

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