Novell Moves Off ReiserFS
Poster: Aron Schatz
Posted on October 15, 2006 at 5:06:04 PM
Novell will be switching to ext3 for its filesystem of choice in the SuSE EL product. Word is that the murder charges of the author of the Reiser filesystem had nothing to do with the decision.
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ReiserFS has been under the control of Hans Reiser, a programmer who this week was arrested on suspicion of murdering his estranged wife. Novell had been considering its decision well before that event, however. "In response to customer demand, in the next version Novell will be changing the default file system in new installations from ReiserFS 3 to ext3," Novell said in a statement. "Novell will continue to support and improve ReiserFS version 3."