From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ralph Ulrich Subject: Re: The reiser4 .... why it is the future Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 01:46:46 +0100 Message-ID: <494062F6.2040809@gmx.de> References: <494035ED.4000706@gmx.de> <49404165.6050806@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <49404165.6050806@gmail.com> Sender: reiserfs-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Cc: reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org And why we all are waiting: As it is that much standardized nowadays, because everything is nearly optimized - for example you cannot expect any new picture format that is much more effective than jpeg2000, you will have todays pdf standard in yeas to come ... etc - because the ways to handle user data nowadays will settle down, will ever less change - that is the chance for reiser4 with plugins to come to market. Hans Reiser was a bit early with his efforts. Now, whenever the data-system (old narrow concept "filesytem") can handle more and more of the logic itself (through the plugins) the field of new connected programming logic will wide open! Ralph (unfortunately not a kernel hacker)