With Namesys founder Hans Reiser [interview [1]] recently [2] arrested [3] as the prime suspect in the disappearance of his estranged wife [4], a brief thread on the lkml [5] discussed the future of ReiserFS. Alan Cox [interview [6]] pointed out that, "reiserfs is written by a team of people at Namesys, and particularly with reiserfs3 people at SuSE and elsewhere as well."
Alexander Lyamin, listed on the Namesys website as their "hostmaster and sysadmin", noted that the team was "rather shaken and stressed at the moment". He confirmed that ReiserFS 3.6 is currently in maintenance mode, then continued to discuss Reiser4, "we are still going through revisions, thanks to [Andrew Morton]. Chunking out patches, fixing issues and generally cleaning the house." He explained that this was the short term plan, for at least the next 6 months. Regarding the future he noted it depends on the outcome of the trial, "if it goes [the] way we hope it will go. Well... We will do fine. If it goes bad. That is where it becomes tricky. We will try to appoint a proxy to run Namesys business."
From: Kobajashi Zaghi [email blocked] To: linux-kernel Subject: The Future of ReiserFS development Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 10:53:02 +0200 Hi! Hans Reiser arrested on suspicion of murder. http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/10/BAGERLM3RR15.DTL [7] What is the plan? Could i migrate from reiserfs to another journaling filesystem? How will this trouble affect reiserfs development? I hope Hans innocent. Thanks, -- Kobi
From: Jan Engelhardt [email blocked] Subject: Re: The Future of ReiserFS development Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 13:20:39 +0200 (MEST) > What is the plan? Could i > migrate from reiserfs to another journaling filesystem? How will this > trouble affect reiserfs development? Since development has pretty much ceased already, there is nothing to lose if you continue to use reiserfs. -`J' --
From: Alan Cox [8] [email blocked] Subject: Re: The Future of ReiserFS development Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:56:44 +0100 Ar Mer, 2006-10-11 am 10:53 +0200, ysgrifennodd Kobajashi Zaghi: > Hi! > > Hans Reiser arrested on suspicion of murder. > > http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/10/BAGERLM3RR15.DTL [9] > > What is the plan? Could i > migrate from reiserfs to another journaling filesystem? How will this > trouble affect reiserfs development? Reiserfs is written by a team of people at Namesys, and particularly with reiserfs3 people at SuSE and elsewhere as well. Alan
From: Alexander Lyamin [email blocked] Subject: Re: The Future of ReiserFS development Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:41:03 +0400 Well, this is correct statement if we are talking about 3.6, its only bugfixes lately. Altough SuSE people used to add some new stuff like ACL support. As for reiser4, we are still going through revision, thanks to AKPM. Chunking out patches,fixing issues and generally cleaning the house. Yes, we are rather shaked and stressed at moment, altough I can not say, we didn't seen it coming. I, personally, really like how US police acted exactly like their russian counterpart: e.g. sitting on their ass for whole month, waiting, so they can declare person officially missing and then just press charges against whoever looks most vulnerable. Well, probably I am wrong. Time will show. What WE (e.g. reiser4 dev people) are planng to do ? Short term ( present + 6 months ): We will just buzz along as ussual, chunking out patches and going through review, while pursuing existing business oportunities to get some funding. Long term (6 months from now and beyond): If it goes way we hope it will go. Well... We will do fine. If it goes bad. That is where it becomes tricky. We will try to appoint a proxy to run Namesys business. Thats it for now. Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 01:20:39PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > > > What is the plan? Could i > > migrate from reiserfs to another journaling filesystem? How will this > > trouble affect reiserfs development? > > Since development has pretty much ceased already, there is nothing to > lose if you continue to use reiserfs. > > > -`J' > -- > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [email blocked] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html [10] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ [11] -- "the liberation loophole will make it clear.." lex lyamin
Related Links:
- Archive of above thread [12]
- KernelTrap interview with Alan Cox [13]