The fact that every single thread here, possibly every single comment, is so far referring to the name of the filesystem, speaks louder to me than your anecdote. (It's very hard, for me at least, to say that in a way that does not come across as snarky, which I don't intend to be.)

Selection bias

I think you might just be trolling, but in case you are not, I do not see how selection bias applies here. I (or anyone else) did not select any comments here. Close, or maybe even actual, 100% of the comments here are about the issue with the name, so unless you want to insinuate that the HN community responding to this is not in any way representative of people who care about filesystems, there is hardly a bias here.

There is a vastness of comments about the name. They all must be written by trolls.

I've said nothing about trolls.

Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? We're trying for something better than that here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

How long do you want to wait? I don't particularly care about the name, but I was around at the time of the Reiser case, and I'd like to hope that I've got another 20-30 years in me yet.

However the reception of brand names is surely often self fulfilling like that, they don't succeed through robotic reason but through fuzzy associations. The murderers connection to the product is very direct so it seems it wont be forgotten soon. An unconnected product might use the name without being tainted.

> tl;dr : Reiser is just a name. It was recently the name of a 'bad guy', but it hasn't always been, and won't always be.

It's a filesystem created by and named after a murderer. Just because you're fine with it does not mean everybody is.

The Reiser filesystem will continue to be used by those who understand its value, despite its bad reputation within a small niche of people[0].

On a more on-topic point: my experience has led me to believe that the Reiser fs (Reiser4) has a narrow use case only when quick operations (seek/read/write) on an inordinate amount (hundreds of thousands+) of small (<1MB) files is required -- and that high performance is absolutely necesaary.

I failed to find any other use in my experiences with it.

I was quite surprised when I initially ran out of inodes my first go-around, as well.

[0] Really, no one cares that much. Whenever the name comes up in less formal circles, obligatroy low-effort "dead wife" jokes surface, but what usually follows is discussion on the filesystem's merits. The outrage is from a vocal minority that I would deduce aren't in any position where choice of filesystem is of their concern.

You are really insulting your fellow commenters here.

If you truly inhabit a healthy, antifragile state of mind, you must realize that many of us are not as enlightened and do have emotional reactions to things like this.

It doesn't mean we are inferior, it just means we are human.

This fragility does not make you a lesser person; I extend my hand to you as an equal, my brother. I hope you do the same when I am misguided or weakened in any manner myself.