[stevekemp]

I can almost see that being useful, but at the same time I'd be more curious about the current knowledge somebody possessed than stuff from back in the day. It's also a bit of an (accidental?) age-test.

It's like asking about Pamela Jones, from Groklaw, and her red dress. Fun trivia, but it tells you nothing about a person's current technical skills (or even their past ones!), just their ability to remember random names/facts, and excludes newer/younger staff.

Back then reiserfs was too new, and therefore not something I'd consider deploying to production systems. These days? Obsolete in practice. So I guess there would be many like me who have a vague memory that it was gonna be cool, with plugins and stuff, but who never actually used it or tried it.

(Maybe it's different if you're interviewing/grilling somebody for a very FS/Storage-heavy NAS-producing company, but there I'd expect conservatism to be highly appreciated?)

[wink]

Absolutely. If you asked me to name current and historical filesystems on Linux I would 100% be able to name reiserfs - but features? Nope, not a single one. I was kinda surprised by the sibling comments that it has been THAT long. When it was actively in the news it was still unstable but promising. Then at some point it hadn't been mentioned anymore for a while and then we had ext4 and xfs and btrfs. So even as a linux user (and admin) I don't think it's anything anyone must know.