

Since then, Namesys has also provided tools to resize (both grow and shrink) ReiserFS file systems offline. Online resizing (growth only), with or without an underlying volume manager such as LVM.Metadata-only journaling (also block journaling, since Linux 2.6.8), its most-publicized advantage over what was the stock Linux file system at the time, ext2.

FeaturesĪt the time of its introduction, ReiserFS offered features that had not been available in existing Linux file systems: The reiserfsprogs 3.6.27 were released on 25 July 2017. The product is now maintained as open source by volunteers. Namesys went out of business in 2008 after Reiser's conviction for murder. Namesys considered ReiserFS version 3.6 which introduced a new on-disk format allowing bigger filesizes, now occasionally referred to as Reiser3, as stable and feature-complete and, with the exception of security updates and critical bug fixes, ceased development on it to concentrate on its successor, Reiser4. Unix permissions, ACLs and arbitrary security attributes Modification (mtime), metadata change (ctime), access (atime) This article is about ReiserFS version 3.
