Is performance really the main issue for a project named after a convicted murder?
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i agree, but i would assume most reiserfs users are unaware of that and are just following a tutorial they saw. it's the only explanation i can come up with that would explain putting your data in a FS known for unreliability and lack of maintenance.
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I do not blame users. There are even reasons for maintaining such a project. But I can't see why one should do that under that name.
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as for why it hasn't been renamed? ask SUSE -- they're the ones maintaining it.
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my guess is that it hasn't been renamed due to apathy. SUSE probably has one or two customers still using it that must be supported.
what i don't understand is why reiser4 is (a) still around, and (b) not renamed, especially given Namesys checks bounced.
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reiser4 was primarily designed and written by Reiser's staff at Namesys, not Reiser himself.
i don't know about you, but whatever loyalty i have toward my boss ends when the checks start bouncing.
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I can understand that, but personally I had situation where I knowingly went without payment to save the company. It was a small company and I was one of the first non founding employees though.
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it's been over a decade since the checks started bouncing though. at that point, why have loyalty?
it's strange to me that people still work on it, because reiser4 is still entirely unreliable and, at this point, entirely obsolete.
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I can't understand why Edward Shishkin (former Namesys employee) hasn't changed the name for Reiser4 and now Reiser5: marc.info/?l=linux-kerne.
They could call it ShishkinFS or almost anything else and people may actually take a look at what they've been making for years...
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I looked at the Reiser4 issue tracker and saw they regularly get frustrated at people telling them they should rename it.
If Reiser got parole, I wouldn't be surprised if he just started working on it again as if nothing happened. Maybe that's their plan, thus not renaming...