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minus-squareGork@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up10·8 months agoI hear that ReiserFS is actually pretty decent from a technical perspective, particularly with large numbers of small file handling. Why hasn’t it just been completely renamed and taken over by other developers?
minus-squarebarsoap@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up20·8 months agoIt hasn’t been renamed and is still in the kernel but is deprecated and slated for removal because lack of maintainers. I think the answer is simple: btrfs exists.
minus-squareMoonrise2473@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·8 months agoThere was a patch to rename it as murderfs
minus-squareCysioland@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoThe company behind it folded after the dude got put in the clink and nobody cared for it anymore, perhaps precisely because the dude who invented it murdered his wife.
I hear that ReiserFS is actually pretty decent from a technical perspective, particularly with large numbers of small file handling.
Why hasn’t it just been completely renamed and taken over by other developers?
It hasn’t been renamed and is still in the kernel but is deprecated and slated for removal because lack of maintainers.
I think the answer is simple: btrfs exists.
There was a patch to rename it as murderfs
The company behind it folded after the dude got put in the clink and nobody cared for it anymore, perhaps precisely because the dude who invented it murdered his wife.