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From: Ron Johnson on 4 May 2010 03:30 On 05/04/2010 01:55 AM, Scarletdown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > <bss(a)iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > >> It's an aggressive migration plan, but reiser3 is just barely maintained in >> the kernel > > Would that be due to the system's creator having current living > conditions unconducive to helping maintain his creation? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_reiser > > Or are there other reasons for the lack of maintenance of the reiserfs? > Few others have the desire and the knowledge. -- Dissent is patriotic, remember? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-REQUEST(a)lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster(a)lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4BDFCB10.2060403(a)cox.net
From: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. on 4 May 2010 10:50
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 01:55:08 Scarletdown wrote: > On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:22 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. > <bss(a)iguanasuicide.net> wrote: > > It's an aggressive migration plan, but reiser3 is just barely maintained > > in the kernel > > Would that be due to the system's creator having current living > conditions unconducive to helping maintain his creation? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_reiser Mr. Reiser stopped contributing to reiserfs3 some time before he murdered his own wife. He was "contributing" to reiserfs4, but his interactions with the kernel developers did not always encourage others to help address the technical issues that prevent reiserfs4 from being in the mainline kernel. > Or are there other reasons for the lack of maintenance of the reiserfs? Mostly, fewer of the file system kernel hackers are interested in it. XFS, ext3/4, btrfs, and others have more advocates and active developers. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. bss(a)iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/ |