Reiser4 Is Now Available For Linux 4.9, Mirror Code Almost Stable
For those that haven't yet switched to Btrfs, ZFS On Linux, or running EXT4/XFS but holding out hope for Reiser4, this out-of-tree file-system code has been updated for Linux 4.9.Reiser4 was released...
View ArticleReiser4 Updated For The Linux 4.10 Kernel
The out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system has been updated for the Linux 4.10 kernel.Reiser4 for the Linux 4.10.0 kernel is available as of earlier this week, managing to release their updated file-system...
View ArticleReiser4 Updated For Linux 4.12, Experimental Data Striping Support
Those using the Reiser4 file-system in some capacity can now safely upgrade to the Linux 4.12 kernel.Edward Shishkin has updated this out-of-tree file-system for the Linux 4.12 kernel so it can be...
View ArticleReiser4 Is Now Ready For Linux 4.13
For those wanting to use the Reiser4 file-system with the just-released Linux 4.13 kernel, patches are already available.Less than one week after the release of the Linux 4.13 stable kernel, Edward...
View ArticleReiser4 Updated For Linux 4.14 & Introduces Zstd Compression Support
The out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system driver has been updated with compatibility for the latest Linux 4.14 stable series. Besides reworking the code to run on Linux 4.14, this controversial file-system...
View ArticleReiser4 File-System Benchmarks With Linux 4.17
It's been about three years since last carrying out any file-system performance benchmarks of Reiser4, but being curious how it stacks up against the current state of today's mainline Linux...
View ArticleReiser4 Brought To The Linux 5.0 Kernel
For those still using the out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system, it may be about time to consider alternatives like Btrfs, XFS, ZFS On Linux, F2FS, or even the likes of Stratis and Bcachefs. But should you...
View ArticleReiser4 File-System Is Still Ticking In 2019 - Now Updated For Linux 5.3...
Edward Shishkin continues near single-handedly maintaining the out-of-tree Reiser4 code that at this point still has no apparent trajectory towards mainline. The former Namesys developer previously...
View ArticleReiser5 Updates For Linux 5.5 Along With Reiser4
The out-of-tree Reiser4 and Reiser5 (Reiser4 v5) patches have been updated against the recently stabilized Linux 5.5 kernel.Main Reiser4 developer Edward Shishkin re-based the Reiser4 file-system...
View ArticleReiser4/Reiser5 Updated For Linux 5.7 Kernel Compatibility
It was just over a week ago that Reiser4 was updated for Linux 5.6 support while now it's been updated for the newly-minted Linux 5.7 stable kernel along with updating the experimental Reiser5...
View ArticleReiser4/Reiser5 Updated For Linux 5.8
Edward Shishkin continues pushing ahead with not only maintaining the existing out-of-tree Reiser4 file-system code but also developing Reiser5 seemingly without any major corporate support. Reiser4...
View ArticleAwkward History of Linux and Latest of Reiser5
Linux in 2020 [Ed: This is clearly conflating the kernel (Linux) with GNU, which predates it by almost one decade. It also perpetuates the myth that only Ubuntu brought GNU/Linux to the masses.]Hello....
View ArticleLinux kernel edges closer to dropping ReiserFS
Linux kernel developer Matthew Wilcox has proposed removing ReiserFS from the Linux kernel – a relatively rare step.This isn't due to a problem or bug in ReiserFS: it still works fine and has plenty of...
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Here's how you can fix the "bash: wget command not found" error in Debian, Ubuntu and other distros.
View ArticleThis week in KDE: yo dawg, I heard you wanted stability
People are always saying that they want us to slow down on the features and focus on stability for a while
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