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Reiser4 is coming

Posted Jul 31, 2003 23:04 UTC (Thu) by acorliss (subscriber, #3710)
Parent article: Reiser4 is coming

SGI didn't whine like Hans did when XFS missed the feature-freeze -- and that's with a *much* more mature and tested filesystem than Reiser. Make him wait. If he can't operate within the same cooperative framework that other developers do, that's his problem.

I also find it interesting that the latest Reiser hasn't been benchmarked against XFS. Looks like they only want to deal with favourable comparisons.

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Reiser4 is coming

Posted Aug 1, 2003 13:07 UTC (Fri) by Peter (guest, #1127) [Link]

I also find it interesting that the latest Reiser hasn't been benchmarked against XFS. Looks like they only want to deal with favourable comparisons.

I get the distinct feeling Hans Reiser has a personal vendetta against ext3 and Red Hat Software. I remember his outrage when some release of Red Hat Linux (7.0?) shipped with ext3 but not reiserfs support. He seemed quite sure that this was purely a political move to promote a technology developed by Red Hat employees, and he seemed to take it quite personally. (According to Alan Cox of Red Hat, the decision was actually based on the simple fact that ext3 survived the stress tests the RH kernel team threw at it, and reiserfs didn't.)

Reiser4 is coming

Posted Aug 1, 2003 16:23 UTC (Fri) by cpeterso (guest, #305) [Link]

SGI doesn't make money if Linux ships with XFS or not. ReiserFS is Hans Reiser's personal business. He doesn't directly make money shipping ReiserFS with Linux, but it would help increase his user base (and possible future paying customers).