Reiser4 File System Still In Development

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Reiser4 File System Still In Development

Posted by timothy on Tuesday October 16, 2012 @01:00AM from the despite-it-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Reiser4 still hasn't been merged into the mainline Linux kernel, but it's still being worked on by a small group of developers following Hans Reiser being convicted for murdering his wife. Reiser4 was updated in September on SourceForge to work with the Linux 3.5 kernel and has been benchmarked against EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and ReiserFS. Reiser4 loses out in most of the Linux file-system performance tests, has much stigma due to Hans Reiser, and Btrfs is surpassing it feature-wise, so does it have any future in Linux ahead?"

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Re:Rename it by Tukz · 2012-10-16 01:05 · Score: 5, Funny

BundyFs4.

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Re:Rename it by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-16 01:06 · Score: 5, Funny

If you can find any name that's not related to murdering your wife, go for it. Bonus points if it's catchy.
My vote for MRDRFS.
Murder joke thread! by serviscope_minor · 2012-10-16 01:11 · Score: 5, Funny

There's going to be a few off color jokes. May as well get started.
* It's a killer filesystem.
* My disk died. Was ReiserFS the murderer?
* It's more cutting edge than Reiser's knife.

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Re:Time to let it go... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-16 01:21 · Score: 3, Funny

One of the strneghts, and weaknesses, of the OSS community is trying bunches of things in parrell to see which ones pan out well. But after a point, it is probably better to just like a project die. Granted no one can tell the individual developers what is 'worth' their time since that is a personal matter, I am sure other projects could use their talents more then this one. ReiserFS is a solution looking for a problem where better solutions surpass it.

Yes, let the project die. And bury it. Out in the woods somewhere. After reading a book about how to retire a project. And be sure to wash the comments out of the repository.
Re:Rename it by MikeBabcock · 2012-10-16 01:23 · Score: 4, Funny

You're talking to people who can't find a spouse, they're totally in another world of reality. The shock of waking up next to a living, breathing woman every day would be enough to keep them in newlywed shock for 50 years.

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KillerFS by Ecuador · 2012-10-16 01:26 · Score: 5, Funny

If you can't change it, embrace it!
People always say X is the killer FS, no Y is the killer FS. Well, this one really is.
Dark humor aside, back in 2003-2004 in my university lab we were running a project that required processing of massive amounts of small files. I had trial runs over the linux file systems of the era and Reiser (I guess version 3 back then?) was so much faster in that context that it could actually save significant processing time. So it I always thought it a real shame that the main developer committed murder and development pretty much stopped back then. Yeah, there are now faster and better FSs, but perhaps Reiser would be a great option as well.

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1. Re:KillerFS by TheLink · 2012-10-16 04:17 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  Yeah, there are now faster and better FSs, but perhaps Reiser would be a great option as well.
  The problem is vendor lock-in.
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2. Re:KillerFS by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-16 04:50 · Score: 1, Funny
  
  Reiser's wife is dead. Netcraft confirms it.
Re:Time to let it go... by Minwee · 2012-10-16 01:34 · Score: 4, Funny

One of the strneghts, and weaknesses, of the OSS community is trying bunches of things in parrell to see which ones pan out well. But after a point, it is probably better to just like a project die.
...And then take all the seats out of your car and tell the police that you haven't seen the project for months.
Re:Why would you even care? by gman003 · 2012-10-16 01:59 · Score: 5, Funny

Nah, truly incredible programmers trap SIGKILL.
Re:Rename it by tobiasly · 2012-10-16 02:15 · Score: 5, Funny

REDRUMFS. As long as you don't use it for mirroring, no one will know.
Re:Rename it by Shark · 2012-10-16 02:18 · Score: 4, Funny

Let me guess... She reads Slashdot and you're covering your ass?

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Al Bundy by tepples · 2012-10-16 02:21 · Score: 3, Funny

Will more people think of Ted Bundy, a serial killer, or Al Bundy, a character played by Ed O'Neill on the sitcom Married with Children?
1. Re:Al Bundy by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-16 03:09 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I don't think it's appropriate to refer to serial killings as a comedy.
Re:Rename it by mwvdlee · 2012-10-16 02:24 · Score: 3, Funny

Nothing quite as romantic as weighing the positives and negatives of murdering your spouse.

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Re:Rename it by GameboyRMH · 2012-10-16 02:41 · Score: 5, Funny

Following in the tradition of Unity Desktop, it should be renamed MaritalBlissFS.

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Re:Rename it by MozeeToby · 2012-10-16 02:54 · Score: 3, Funny

As a man married for 5 years now I'd have to say no, no I haven't thought about murdering my wife.
Re:Rename it by mcgrew · 2012-10-16 04:10 · Score: 3, Funny

Oh, man, you guys kill me!

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Re:Rename it by hawguy · 2012-10-16 05:08 · Score: 2, Funny

Geek points dropped if you can't separate a filesystem from the actions of it's original author. Hell if the article hadn't shouted it out, again it wouldn't have been the first thing that popped into my mind. (thanks for that).
This far on the only people who should give a shit are the people directly affected by the crime.
Bad things happen, move on.
Humanity points dropped if you can completely separate a software product from the actions of its original author - why help spread ReiserFS and give him the satisfaction of seeing his filesystem grow into one of the most popular Linux filesystems? I'd rather let him watch his brainchild die.
Why is it ok for those who were directly affected by the crime to give a shit, but those of us who were appalled at the crime but not directly affected should just pretend it never happened?
Kernel Merge Expected by Jeremiah+Cornelius · 2012-10-16 05:09 · Score: 5, Funny

in 20 years to life.

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Re:Rename it by quenda · 2012-10-16 05:39 · Score: 5, Funny

If you can find any name that's not related to murdering your wife, go for it. Bonus points if it's catchy.
I though they were changing it to "Open Journaling FileSystem".