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The real innovation of ReiserFS was to set up a development environment where they could develop, profile a new feature, repeat, multiple times a day. That's ho
by david_draco 7y ago
The real innovation of ReiserFS was to set up a development environment where they could develop, profile a new feature, repeat, multiple times a day. That's how they got such an amazingly performant FS: Short feedback cycles.
- BuildTheRobots 7y agoIs there any more information on how they accomplished this?
- david_draco 7y ago"Plugins" https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/V4#Software_Libre_Takes_More_Than_A_License_---_It_Takes_A_Design https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/V4#Software_Libre_... https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/V4#The_Software_Engineering_Lurking_Below_File_Plugins https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/V4#The_Software_En... They have some text where it shows they thought deeply about the meaning of names and domains, and how to develop file systems, what is important, etc.
- BuildTheRobots 7y agoThank you for the link - the whole page is a really interesting read.