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Re:Reiser5 by gerdesj on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @05:25PM (#21931167)
I agree. I used to use reiserfs on everything I touched back in the day: Mandrake, SuSE etc. When Hans R became toxic and ext4 happened to suddenly fit the bill, I followed the rest of the herd and reiserfs3 rapidly fell off the top n filesystem charts. I remember reiser doing some things much, much faster than say ext2, eg directory listing with lots of files. It also seemed to know when to repair itself on boot and simply do the right thing - that would be the journalling that ext2 didn't have and ext3/4 took a while to get working properly.

They could call it rfs or something, anything but reiserfs.

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Re:Reiser5 by joyjoyjoy on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @05:51PM (#21931310)
"much faster than say ext2"

Mordsschnell!

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Re:Reiser5 by gerdesj on Wednesday January 01, 2020 @06:28PM (#21931544)
Not fast but quick.

Aside: "Quick" can mean "alive" - I think that was its original meaning. We should also note that schnell is often translated as "quick" but I think "faster" is better in general. Using a simple dictionary approach to translate mordsschnell into English might come unstuck pretty quickly. With these clues we could arrive at living dead or zombie! I don't know but given how fast the above comment got downvoted that word has some history.

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