[plug] The end of Reiserfs as we know it.

[Gregory Orange]

Senectus . wrote:
> Because it's open source, if it has any real value it will live on.
> 
> if bits of it have any real value they'll find themselves migrated over 
> to another FS.

In a perfectly sensible world, perhaps. While big business often does 
inane things for predictable reasons like the bottom dollar, inane open 
source activity can be for much less predictable reasons. e.g. A cult of 
personality can keep a project going so strongly that the loss of that 
person can be such a shock, that the time it takes everyone to recover 
and actually consider the project again, is long enough that the 
technology has been left behind. Whew that was a long and somewhat 
broken sentence, and that's only one possible inane reason, of many.

I think there's definitely merit in the quality ==> survival concept, 
but I also reckon that sillyness and unexplainability sometimes trump 
it. Note that the above long sentence doesn't necessarily tell the story 
of Reiser because I don't really know much of the details and I'm not 
even subscribed to their mailing list. It might be relevant though.

Greg.