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I don't remember specifics any more and don't have enough time to research at this moment - maybe later tonight. Around the time when ReiserFS v4 came out I re

I don't remember specifics any more and don't have enough time to research at this moment - maybe later tonight. Around the time when ReiserFS v4 came out I remember there being a lot of strife around performance numbers - specifically that nobody could replicate anything even close to the performance numbers that the ReiserFS team was claiming. Between that and other interactions, there was an increasing divide between the ReiserFS team and the kernel community at large. I believe (but never confirmed) there was also a concern that the filesystem may go commercial which did not help matters. While the murder didn't help matters, by time news broke there was already very little interest in ongoing community support. I suspect that even if Hans didn't murder his wife and merely abandoned ReiserFS, it would have suffered the same fate. I didn't have much experience with ReiserFS 4, but had good experiences with ResierFS 3 on many devices over several years before moving on to better supported file systems.

afr0ck 3y ago
Just out of curiosity, may I ask for which reason did you use ReiserFS v3 and on what kind of devices?
- neoCrimeLabs 3y ago
  What reason? Nobody ever asked that. Kinda funny, I was learning about file-system data recovery and forensics around 1999-2000 and was impressed with how much data that could be retrieved from slack-space [1] on hard drives. I had originally learned this on FAT based file systems. Wanting to expand my skills, I built a linux kernel with all the available file systems at the time, including ReiserFS and then created files systems to experiment with. I was surprised to find that there was no slack with ReiserFS. Without getting more long winded, that caused me to take a closer look at it. Put simply it got my attention. By around 2001 I was using it on my personal workstations and occasional laptop. Eventually it even made it onto my personal co-located servers. At the time I had the delusional idea of making my own security-focused linux distribution, so I was re-installing my devices frequently. Probably why I never had an issue with failure. The one exception was one of my co-located servers that I used for version control that was online with reiserfs for almost 2 years without issue. I migrated to a different server and rebuilt that one before it failed. (edit) I almost forgot - Something I did really /love/ about it was that it handled filesystems with many (hundreds of thousands) of tiny files, symlinks, and directories without breaking a sweat. I was using it as a weird document/graph-oriented database for an app I wrote and was experimenting with (2002-ish?). Now I remember its architecture I'm surprised how well it worked considering I was too inexperienced to understand what indexes were let alone how to use them. All other file systems I tried that with would run out of i-nodes and become incredibly slow at a mere fraction of what the reiserfs based version was able to achieve. [1] - https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/slack-space-file-slack-space https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/slack-space-fil...

afr0ck 3y ago

Just out of curiosity, may I ask for which reason did you use ReiserFS v3 and on what kind of devices?

neoCrimeLabs 3y ago
What reason? Nobody ever asked that. Kinda funny, I was learning about file-system data recovery and forensics around 1999-2000 and was impressed with how much data that could be retrieved from slack-space [1] on hard drives. I had originally learned this on FAT based file systems. Wanting to expand my skills, I built a linux kernel with all the available file systems at the time, including ReiserFS and then created files systems to experiment with. I was surprised to find that there was no slack with ReiserFS. Without getting more long winded, that caused me to take a closer look at it. Put simply it got my attention. By around 2001 I was using it on my personal workstations and occasional laptop. Eventually it even made it onto my personal co-located servers. At the time I had the delusional idea of making my own security-focused linux distribution, so I was re-installing my devices frequently. Probably why I never had an issue with failure. The one exception was one of my co-located servers that I used for version control that was online with reiserfs for almost 2 years without issue. I migrated to a different server and rebuilt that one before it failed. (edit) I almost forgot - Something I did really /love/ about it was that it handled filesystems with many (hundreds of thousands) of tiny files, symlinks, and directories without breaking a sweat. I was using it as a weird document/graph-oriented database for an app I wrote and was experimenting with (2002-ish?). Now I remember its architecture I'm surprised how well it worked considering I was too inexperienced to understand what indexes were let alone how to use them. All other file systems I tried that with would run out of i-nodes and become incredibly slow at a mere fraction of what the reiserfs based version was able to achieve. [1] - https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/slack-space-file-slack-space https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/slack-space-fil...