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.