On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 09:24:44PM -0400, Paul Robert Marino wrote:
>
> OK well reiserfs is actually EXT2 with a journal slapped on top of it just like EXT3 so you can try mounting it as readonly EXT2 though admittedly I haven't tried it it should work in theory, but certainly can't hurt if you try it in read only mode.
>
Sheesh. The guy goes to jail and today nobody even remembers what he was all about.
reiserfs is not EXT2, not XFS, not flash-fs, not ZFS, not AFS, not ...
It was much better than all of them in exactly 1 way - it was built
to efficiently handle large number of small files.
With reiserfs:
a) a "hello world!" file does not occupy 4k of disk space (tail packing)
b) "rm -rf /" takes 1 second (try to delete some files from ZFS, lucky ot be done by tomorrow).
c) "ls -ltR /" does not take 10 days
It was very good while it lasted.
Of course today everybody wants checksums, and dedup, and built-in raid,
and snapshots, and ... and so reiserfs joins the Dodo bird, the steam-powered airplane,
and the home made icecream as fond memory of last year's trees were taller,
grass was greener.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Reiser
K.O.
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> Subject: Re: reiserfs?
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> On 07/18/2017 05:33 PM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 9:04 PM, ToddAndMargo <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >> Hi All,
> >>
> >> I need to read a reiserfs partition on a flash drive.
> >> Any words of wisdom?
> >
> > *Why* ? reiserfs has languished since the arrest of Hans Reiser for
> > murdering his wife. And much like ReiserFS, Hans claimed complete
> > innocence until actually looking at evidence proved that her sudden
> > absence was entirely his fault.
> >
>
> Hi Niko,
>
> Ya, no fooling! :-)
>
> I was trying to read the reiserfs partition on my
> Knoppix Live USB drive.
>
> I eventuality qemu-kvm boot the flash drive and used
> cifs to import the data I wanted from my Samba server
>
> -T
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