Post by Omar Rizwan (@omar@social.omar.website)

Omar Rizwan @omar

Typical

[–]waptaff 29 points 5 years ago
Reiser4 was promising but its design was very different from the other filesystems, so it included a great deal of code working around the kernel VFS. The kernel maintainers didn't like the idea of adding that much code that was not shareable with other filesystems and wanted something cleaner. There was a long stretch of (frustrated) back-n-forth where code was patched to ease its inclusion into the kernel, then Reiser had to deal with the consequences of his crime and the project was mostly abandoned afterwards.

[–]cbmuser Debian / openSUSE / OpenJDK Dev 5 points 5 years ago
One of the main problems were that Hans Reiser and Christoph Hellweg, the then VFS maintainer, couldn’t get along with each other.

[–]waptaff 29 points 5 years ago
Reiser4 was promising but its design was very different from the other filesystems, so it included a great deal of code working around the kernel VFS. The kernel maintainers didn't like the idea of adding that much code that was not shareable with other filesystems and wanted something cleaner. There was a long stretch of (frustrated) back-n-forth where code was patched to ease its inclusion into the kernel, then Reiser had to deal with the consequences of his crime and the project was mostly abandoned afterwards.

[–]cbmuser Debian / openSUSE / OpenJDK Dev 5 points 5 years ago
One of the main problems were that Hans Reiser and Christoph Hellweg, the then VFS maintainer, couldn’t get along with each other.

Omar Rizwan @omar

I like that the technical mismatch is pretty much an exact mirror of the personal mismatch