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081126 W.Kenworthy wrote: |
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>> A) reiserfs is a good filesystem, |
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>> but the battle between Hans Reiser and Linux developers |
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>> caused people to dislike reiserfs for non-technical reasons. |
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> A is the answer. Hans Reiser is by all accounts a brilliant, |
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> eccentric but deeply flawed individual. He did not get on |
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> at a personal or professional level with the world in general. |
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> It almost seems like ext3/4 were developed to spite him |
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> and give alternatives so they would not have to deal with him. |
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> Unprofessional words and actions were taken on both sides, |
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> but the animosity caused by Hans and others in response means |
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> this will take forever to blow over, even with Hans out of the picture. |
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Yes, very much my own take on the story. |
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I used Reiserfs in the computers I built in 2003 & 2007 |
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& have never had any problems with either installation. |
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My CAD 0,02 . |
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