Comments on: New Development with Reiser

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:41:36 +0000

What can I say? It was on sale.

By: Napoleon Dworkin

Napoleon Dworkin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:36:36 +0000

Wholesale slaughter of…! Why that cheapens the very idea of retail murder!

By: D

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 05:50:11 +0000

Firstly:This is crazy! Are you *seriously* advocating waterboarding. Or only implying that *torture is an acceptable practice*?!??I mean the idea that he should keep working on the project is good, but regulations for reducing the sentence for good behaviour already exist and I don’t think the way you’re suggesting it is more appropriate.

By: Stephanie Z

Stephanie Z — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 20:02:48 +0000

Napoleon, I was going to ask what the sentence was for wholesale slaughter of the English language, but “murderadicated” is actually pretty clever. Next time, maybe.

By: Brian X

Brian X — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:14:13 +0000

Greg:I presume you have written this article with much Swiftness intended, but frankly, it isn’t very Swift. Could you make it closed-captioned for the humor-impaired?Also, I run Knoppix and have never used ReiserFS. The smart thing to do would be to fork the code IMHO.Also Reiser deserves to rot. I mean that literally — like full-body athlete’s foot.

By: Napoleon Dworkin

Napoleon Dworkin — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:01:51 +0000

“I want to see first is that his sentence … starting with, say, a presumed 50 years, is reduced”Greg that is such an antiwyminysticalogical statement that I want to see you do some time!Don’t you know that domestic violence claims the lives of..um ..a couple or more wimins every year, and despite that, women–and MILF mothers like Reiser– are still the primary murderers and physical abusers of children…and men are still less likely to report wives who abuse them??!!oops..wait a minute…I meant to say: Wut, are you travailizing and massagenalizing this subject of the six or seven wymin who are murderadicated every year, or the domestic violence that VAWA created?Sure, men suffer from the great disparities in the profiling and sentencing of domestic violence perpetration(women get lighter sentences, perpetrate domestic violence more often, and there is as yet no solid profile of the personality type of the females who abuse men and children, etc…)but the worst part is that Ms. Reiser was kind of good looking, so you advocate for a lighter sentence for her killer!??I am out and raged!….!

By: vm

vm — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:36:21 +0000

I cannot believe I read this nonsense. At first I thought the author was serious about the reiserfs project.Now he is advocating sentencing and perhaps even trying people based on their s/w code. And I was already skeptical of our criminal justice system.

By: vm

vm — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:35:01 +0000

I cannot believe I read this crap. At first I thought the author was serious about the reiserfs project.Now he is advocating sentencing and perhaps even trying people based on their s/w code. And to think I was skeptical of our criminal justice system that lets powerful people and celebrities often walk while locking up or executing innocent ‘criminals’.

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:14:09 +0000

Consciousness is …… wait, let me think about this for a second…Aha!!!!!

By: Greg Laden

Greg Laden — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:10:48 +0000

Well, first of all, it is a journaling system. This means, essentially, that a “transaction” (something changing on the disk) is first recorded and documented as an event, then it happens, then the record is cleaned up (depending on the system). This means that if the operation is interrupted for any reason, the system can back track to the pre-interruption state. It is very difficult to for data to get blottoed.There are other journaling systems, Reiser is considered better because it has more (esoteric) options for how the journaling is done. Also, the Reiser journaling system is not perfectly secure on all systems.Reiser also outperforms other systems by a HUGE margin on handling large numbers of tiny files. This is good for certain systems that use a lot of these files. One real performance benefit actual users might actually notice is in web browsing, in that web browser caches are often made up of a zillion tiny pieces (like that book but real).There is also a feature in Reiser FS that compacts (optimizes/compresses depending on system-specific lingo) the files very efficiently, but this can have a performance hit. This is one of the things we want Hans to work on in his spare time between working out in the yard and doing chain gang work with the California Department of Transportation…Another down side, which Hans can fix, is that the usual panoply of tools one sees to mess around with (repair, modify, etc.) a file system have not been developed fully for Reiser.