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[–] [email protected] 48 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

And then we complain when file system developers murders their wives.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (4 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

There was a patch to rename it as murderfs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

A) Btrfs exists

B) It had some technical superiority in some specific workloads 20 years ago

C) Nobody other than the infamous wife killer ever carried it forward despite some efforts

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I wanted to upvote this but it’s sitting at 9 votes which just seems right.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I've run kill -9 and similar heaps before, but weirdly this comment reminded me of this: https://youtu.be/Fow7iUaKrq4

[–] [email protected] 20 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Per my teacher in the late '90s: it is terrible to leave orphans; always kill whole families. (This was in relation to Oracle DBs and relationships between tables and data)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

But I want to make Batmans :(

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The prof had mostly transitioned to farming (which sounded utterly ridiculous to me at the time, but I'm a senior engineer who just bought a farm...) already in his early 80s so I'm not sure how familiar he was with the batman creation process.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

ngl this makes me want to create a nuclear reactor in the shed in my backyard just tu dump the core in the city center.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

this joke never gets old

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Dumped my core this morning. Still can't go in the bathroom.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

oh not sure which specific book this is