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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
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Date: 2 May 2025 20:16:26 GMT
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On Fri, 2 May 2025 09:13:55 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote:

> I didn't know much about ReiserFS back around 2004, but every
> publication was saying that it was a huge improvement over everything
> else so I used it in the limited time I ran Gentoo. I can't speak to its
> worth. In fact, I'm happy you mentioned it because I largely forgot
> about it.

It was a journaling file system, which ext2 was not and faster for some 
operations. Linux was trailing the pack. AIX was journaled in the '90s, as 
was NTFS. ext3 came out in 2001, the same year as ReiserFS but it took a 
while to catch on. Distros cited technical reasons for going to ext3 
rather than Reiser being on trial for murder. 

btrfs owes more to ReiserFS 4 than ext3/ext4. Without the notoriety 
ReiserFS would probably have been developed instead. Not a good idea to 
name a project after yourself although Torvalds has been able to suppress 
his murderous impulses.