Reiser4 Filesystem Released

trixie_czech writes "It's finally arrived. Go to namesys for reasons to use reiser4 as a filesystem and benchmarks. Go here to download. Enjoy!" The Namesys homepage in its current stage reminds me of a cross between The Secret Guide to Computers and the GNU Manifesto -- which is to say, there is a lot to read here, not just a bullet-pointed feature list.

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[Anonymous Coward]

I for one, welcome our new, fourth-generation, filesystem overlords.

oooooo, dancing trees!

[fishbert42]

... but can they tango?

Reiser4 may be great....

[moosesocks]

but will it save Namesys from a slashdotting?

Seriously.... their server admins must be FSCKing angry.

What's with that link?

[Chordonblue]

There doesn't seem to be a Windows version of Reiser on that li....

Oh...

Yea that homepage looks like alot of others

[TigerTime]

"The Namesys homepage in its current stage is reminds me of a cross between The Secret Guide to Computers and the GNU Manifesto " Yea, i see "This page cannot be found" on alot of websites

Can reiser4 withstand the slashdot effect?

[Anonymous Coward]

www.namesys.com is responding pretty slowly already.

Is that due to a bottleneck in the filesystem under heavy load? Hope they're running reiser4 :-)

Well?

[iamdrscience]

Somebody post a bulleted list of featuress already! I'm a busy man, I don't have time to read anything longer than two and a half pages of double-spaced 12pt Courier, and that's only for the executive summary of my encyclopedia A-L anyways.

First Post

[HermanAB]

Damn ext3...

No compelling reason to upgrade

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm going to stick w/ Emacs for my filesystem thank you.

Re:ext3 to reiser4 ?

[gordyf]

Um, every hashing algorithm has collisions. There are more things to hash than there are resulting hashes.

Re:oooooo, dancing trees!

[Jeremi]

I don't know about you, but for me the tfa isn't about algorithms at all, but rather is a very short piece regarding "server timeouts". :^P

MANIFESTO

[YetAnotherName]

Yes, that certainly comes across more like a manifesto than a detailed exposition of software architecture. I have to admit, reading through it, my KOOK Alert was almost reaching critical stages ... if they only included SOME ALL CAPS SECTIONS as well as a reference to Einstein, who was on the brink of making a similar discovery, but was forced to suppress it DUE TO GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION, then the KOOK alarms would be blaring and I'd've discounted the entire thing.

Now, all I'm interested in doing is exploring the potential of doing everything in the "manifesto" literary style. My next letter to the editor? Manifesto. My thank-you note to grandma? Manifesto. My resume? Manifesto. My next Slashdot posting? Manifesto.

Oh yes ... they never trusted me at the academy ... but they'll learn the hard way ... mwuahaha, er ... ha.

Re:oooooo, dancing trees!

[Fortyseven]

Not just trees, but ATOMIC DANCING TREES. Crazy shit, and obviously representing a superior filesystem. :D

Re:Helpful Mirror

[dubl-u]

Sure, the text might be helpful, but I think much of the value of this article comes from the images that go with it. E.g., this one [namesys.com].

No, really, they use a bunch of illustrations like this in the linked article. It dumbfounds me.

Re:ext3 to reiser4 ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Crap, I'm in Arizona

ENT-ertaining...

[tepples]

Dancing trees? Now that's ent-ertainment!

</lotr>

Re:ext3 to reiser4 ?

[Anonymous Coward]

I myself have never had any problems with reiserfsck -- what exactly is wrong with it?

You don't know? The problem with reiserfsck is that it is invisible to those who are dogmatically anti-Reiser. Hans is currently working on a ReiserDecloak() function to address this.

Re:Stability

[Anonymous Coward]

Not even this much? [scjohnson.ca]

Re:ext3 to reiser4 ?

[AvantLegion]

>> Statistically speaking you are more likely to get malaria in Arizona than experience a random MD5 collision.

I've been feeling ill ever since I came home from Flagstaff...

Three things came out of Berkeley...

[loonicks]

Good to hear the Linux filesystem envelope is being pushed further. The illustrations make me wonder if LSD had anything to do with Reiser4, but... whatever helps, I suppose.

Re:Reiser4 may be great....

[hansreiser]

We only have a 100 megabit fiber optic connection to the internet, and it can't handle this load, sigh.... Slashdot is amazing....

Hans

Re:ext3 to reiser4 ?

[ASkGNet]

Except the fact that perfect hash does not support changing of dataset after performing the conversion to a perfect hash.

So please, take all possible files, run a perfect hash on them (remember, it will take at least O(N) and at worst - infinite amount of time), brew some coffee while you are at it, and you may want to steal a Cray or a thousand of them.

Also, by the Murphy's law, you will get busted by FBI in the last second before it completes running - since all the possible files include all the MPAA and RIAA-protected files.

(note, I am aware that the number of possible files is infinite - aleph 0 in fact - but let that slip for now)

Re:Stability

[Anonymous Coward]

Dancing trees, wandering logs - sounds like the ReiserFS development lab is more of an anthropomorphic lumbermill.

What, no screenshots?

[Oestergaard]

What?!?

Come on Hans, give us what you know we slashdot junkies want!

How are we supposed to take a filesystem serious if there are no screenshots!?

8)

Re:On the other hand ...

[martinde]

> The cause was a hardware problem, true, but fs should not be a toast because of it.

When you develop software that is immune to hardware failure, be sure to let us all know ;-)

AC

[Luyseyal]

You saw Anonymous Coward at OLS? SWEET! That dude posts like MAD around here!

-l

Re:ext3 to reiser4 ?

[Aardpig]

Like what? Stop trolling arsehole. Please point to a significant amount of racist posts, or shut the hell up.

Ah, good to see that the BNP is here!