On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 10:37:12AM +0200, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
Yes, that was its main strength.
ReiserFS's main strength was that it reimagined how filesystems should be used. It's main drawback was that applications would need to be redesigned in order to take advantage of the new paradigm, and then wouldn't work with any other filesystem or OS. As a side effect, it provided the benfits of a journalling filesystem when there weren't a lot of good options for that on linux. It was briefly popular so people could avoid lengthy fsck's, not generally because people wanted reiserfs specifically. Once other journalling filesystems became available and people realized that nobody was going to rewrite the world for reiserfs (and other obvious headwinds) it was over.
If anyone's still using it, they should really rethink that.
