Comment by attentive
3 years ago
Viacheslav is one of those many russians who fully endorses russia's war of invasion in Ukraine while living in SFBA. I wish this fs the same fate as ReiserFS.
3 years ago
Viacheslav is one of those many russians who fully endorses russia's war of invasion in Ukraine while living in SFBA. I wish this fs the same fate as ReiserFS.
I mean its open source, why wish for a project with actual utility to die when its completely forkable? Its not like the code itself is harmful, just the author according to what you've said.
(tldr; war unequivocally evil; not all russians unequivocally evil; pure science itself never unequivocally evil)
Wish harm on the person, no the tech /s
But seriously, as much as I strongy disapprove of this whole russian invasion fiasco (and the humanitarian impact of a senseless conflict), I think that there's still merit on the technology itself. Its not like Viacheslav is bombing ukrainian civilians in order to squeeze some performance inprovements out of the storage media. For the same reason, I won't stop running nginx on my boxes.
Many famous inventors were bastards in real life. Take for example the guy who invented the machine gun, allowing killing and maiming on a whole new level. Many Nobel Prize winners, who worked out the basis of whole new research areas were eugenics proponents. Hell, Schrödinger was probably a kid diddler; John Lennon, a wife beater; the corn flakes guy was a nut; disgusting bastards, the whole lot of them. But that's because they were people. Its not like Kevin Spacey became a bad actor once the sexual abuse allegations were made public, or Chuck Berry's music became bad when people realized he was a pervert. Likewise, all those people contributed to their fields in ways that still influence how we live today.
And to be completely fair, ReiserFS has been deprecated not because of the infamous murder case (of which Hans should prob be finishing his sentence soon), but because many of its contributions were superceded by new tech present in modern, well-supported alternatives. Also the reliance on kernel locks. And it inspired some of these following improvements.
That's not at all pleasant to hear, thanks sharing. It is most likely just fancy & wouldnt have gone anywhere, but I had sort of hoped to play with this & find some way to be useful, contribute some code. Very rebuffing having that association.