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PaulHoule
MurderFS.
JPLeRouzic
That's not kind, several people worked on ReiserFS even after Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife. It's a sad story for them, they liked their product and the conduct of their leader betrayed them.
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schmidp
That kind of troll talk is very rare here and unnecessary. Don’t know what else to say tbh.
lp0_on_fire
The account is 17 hours old - best to not feed the troll.
M_bara
Ahh, I’ll call bs on that. Reiserfs was an innovative fs at the time; in the current space, btrfs is in the same space. Stuff like tail packing and very good performance on small files (emails) made it a good fit for specific workloads.
PaulHoule
That fsck that gets confused when you store a ReiserFS image in your filesystem is a problem. I've long been interested in reading a filesystem as a text the way Derrida would read a text and ReiserFS is one of the weirder ones.

Personally I have no interest in a filesystem being high performing or having interesting features if it murders your data. You might think otherwise now but after you have a serious wreck you might appreciate ext4. (Every total NTFS failure I had had to do with failing hardware but it does seem they are never the same if you make a directory with too many files.)

hitekker
Yet they continue to brand their software in his name. Despite the community asking for a rename https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297, tech publications pushing for a rename: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4#History_of_Reiser4, and Linux Kernel developers just wanting nothing to do with that name.

At some point, you have to wonder why the developers of a filesystem insist on associating it with a convicted murderer. Maybe stubbornness, edginess, a lack of awareness... or maybe they're friends of Hans Reiser.

JPLeRouzic
I have no opinion about why the name of Reiser is still used, but in your first link there is no mention of Reiser.

In an Algolia search I can't find any conversation about a name change on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...