One could say they’re killing it off.
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.
Remove the file system because it is obsolete but not because of the author. Or are we shutting down NASA due to its Nazi ties?
Right, they’re removing it because they can’t get maintainers. It’s obsolete, nobody ever said they’re removing it because of Hans Reiser.
I assume there will be a userspace driver for it now, like fuse?
Doubtful. Even among the Reiser users, I bet nobody uses a ReiserFS version bundled with the kernel. Reiser4 is has never been upstreamed which is a bit of a shame because technologically it’s apparently quite good. Nobody but the leftover developers know why they did not just rename that thing and adapted it to kernel standards…
I’m glad we finally get to bury this hatchet…
