{"id":1177682,"date":"2023-08-31T14:48:46","date_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:48:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1177682"},"modified":"2023-08-31T14:48:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T18:48:46","slug":"reiserfs-is-now-obsolete-in-the-linux-kernel-and-should-be-gone-by-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1177682","title":{"rendered":"ReiserFS is now \u201cobsolete\u201d in the Linux kernel and should be gone by 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/GettyImages-1408905291-800x533-1.jpg\" alt=\"An Alameda County couple watches as investigators prepare to retrieve the body of Nina Reiser in the Oakland hills in July 2008. Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS file system, provided the location after his 2008 murder conviction.\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/GettyImages-1408905291-scaled.jpg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"1707\" data-width=\"2560\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> An Alameda County couple watches as investigators prepare to retrieve the body of Nina Reiser in the Oakland hills in July 2008. Hans Reiser, creator of the ReiserFS file system, provided the location after his 2008 murder conviction. (credit: Carlos Avila Gonzalez\/The San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>When Apple was about to introduce Time Machine in Mac OS X Leopard, John Siracusa wrote in the summer of 2006 about how <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/staff\/2006\/08\/4995\/\">a new file system should be coming to Macs<\/a> (which it did, 11 years later). The Mac, Siracusa wrote, needed something that could efficiently handle lots of tiny files, volume management with pooled storage, checksum-based data integrity, and snapshots. It needed something like ZFS or, perhaps, ReiserFS, file systems \u201cnotable for their willingness to reconsider past assumptions about file system design.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Two months later, the name Reiser would lose most of its prestige and pick up a tragic association it would never shake. Police arrested the file system\u2019s namesake, Hans Reiser, and <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/tech-policy\/2006\/10\/7956\/\">charged him with murder<\/a> in connection with the disappearance of his estranged wife.<\/p>\n<p>Reiser\u2019s work on Linux file systems was essentially sentenced to obscurity from that point on. Now that designation has been made official, as the file system that was once the default on systems like SUSE Linux has been changed from \u201cSupported\u201d to \u201cObsolete\u201d in <a href=\"https:\/\/git.kernel.org\/pub\/scm\/linux\/kernel\/git\/torvalds\/linux.git\/commit\/?id=1500e7e0726e963f64b9785a0cb0a820b2587bad\">the latest Linux 6.6 kernel merge process<\/a> (as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/ReiserFS-Obsolete\">reported by Phoronix<\/a>). While a former employee of Reiser\u2019s company, Namesys, continues out-of-source work on later versions of ReiserFS, it is likely to disappear from the kernel entirely in a matter of years, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phoronix.com\/news\/ReiserFS-Deprecate-Remove-2025\">likely 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1964740#p3\">Read 8 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1964740&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1964740\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ReiserFS is now \u201cobsolete\u201d in the Linux kernel and should be gone by 2025<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ An Alameda County couple watches as investigators prepare to retrieve the body of Nina Reiser in the Oakland hills in July 2008. 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