I was one of the reiserfs users before it happened and I dumped it quickly. I think an awful lot of people did the same, and since it was one of a number of alternatives to ext I think it is more abandonment than obsolescence.
Now I think my decision was wrong headed, so long as he was no longer involved. The NASA example was given. Alfred Hitchcock movies? Abuser of women but damn good films.
reiser4 was a promising filesystem (had transparent compression very early on) but reiser3 (reiserfs) didn’t really have anything significant over ext3/4 so abandoning it made sense. And reiser4 never made the kernel so it’s understandable that most never bothered with it, although I used it for a few years before btrfs became viable.
I was one of the reiserfs users before it happened and I dumped it quickly. I think an awful lot of people did the same, and since it was one of a number of alternatives to ext I think it is more abandonment than obsolescence.
Now I think my decision was wrong headed, so long as he was no longer involved. The NASA example was given. Alfred Hitchcock movies? Abuser of women but damn good films.
reiser4was a promising filesystem (had transparent compression very early on) butreiser3(reiserfs) didn’t really have anything significant over ext3/4 so abandoning it made sense. Andreiser4never made the kernel so it’s understandable that most never bothered with it, although I used it for a few years beforebtrfsbecame viable.