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 /*
    Copyright 1996-2004 by Hans Reiser, licensing governed by
    reiserfsprogs/README.
 */

 Hans Reiser was the project initiator,  source of all funding for the first 5.5
 years. He is the architect and official maintainer.

 Vladimir Saveliev started as the most junior programmer on the team, and became
 the lead programmer.  He is now an experienced highly productive programmer. He
 wrote the extent  handling code for Reiser4,  plus parts of  the balancing code
 and file write and file read.

 Alexander Zarochentcev  (zam)  wrote the high low priority locking code, online
 resizer for V3 and V4, online repacker for V4, block allocation code, and major
 parts of  the flush code,  and maintains the transaction manager code.  We give
 him the stuff  that we know will be hard to debug,  or needs to be very cleanly
 structured.

 Nikita Danilov  wrote  most of the core  balancing code, plugin infrastructure,
 and directory code. He steadily worked long hours, and is the reason so much of
 the Reiser4 plugin infrastructure is well abstracted in its details.  The carry
 function, and the use of non-recursive balancing, are his idea.

 Vladimir Demidov wrote the parser for sys_reiser4(), the V3 alpha port, part of
 the V3  journal  relocation code,  and helped  Hans keep  the business  side of
 things running.

 Chris Mason wrote the journaling code for V3,  which was enormously more useful
 to users than just waiting until  we could create a wandering log filesystem as
 Hans would have unwisely done without him.
 Jeff Mahoney optimized the bitmap  scanning code for V3,  and performed the big
 endian cleanups.

 Elena Gryaznova performed testing and benchmarking.

 Oleg Drokin was the debugger for  V3 during most of the time that  V4 was under
 development,  and was quite  skilled and fast at it.  He wrote  the large write
 optimization of V3.

 Edward Shishkin wrote the encryption and compression  file plugins,  and the V3
 journal relocation code.

 Alexander  Lyamin  keeps our hardware  running,  and was very  generous  to our
 project in many little ways.

 Vitaly Fertman wrote  fsck for V3 and  maintains the reiserfsprogs package now.
 He wrote librepair,  userspace plugins repair code, fsck for V4,  and worked on
 developing libreiser4 and userspace plugins with Umka.

 Yury Umanets  (aka Umka)  developed  libreiser4,  userspace  plugins,  and  all
 userspace tools (reiser4progs) except of fsck.

 Joshua Macdonald wrote the first draft of the transaction manager. Yuri Rupasov
 did testing  and benchmarking,  plus he invented the r5 hash  (also used by the
 dcache  code).  Yura  Rupasov,  Anatoly Pinchuk,  Igor Krasheninnikov,  Grigory
 Zaigralin,  Mikhail  Gilula,   Igor  Zagorovsky,  Roman  Pozlevich,  Konstantin
 Shvachko, and Joshua MacDonald are former contributors to the project.

 Jeremy  Fitzhardinge  wrote  the  teahash.c  code  for  V3.  Colin  Plumb  also
 contributed to that.

 The  Defense  Advanced  Research  Projects Agency (DARPA, www.darpa.mil) is the
 primary sponsor of Reiser4.  DARPA  does  not  endorse  this project; it merely
 sponsors it.

 Continuing core development of ReiserFS is  mostly paid for by Hans Reiser from
 money made selling licenses  in addition to the GPL to companies who don't want
 it known that they use ReiserFS  as a foundation for their proprietary product.
 And my lawyer asked 'People pay you money for this?'. Yup. Life is good. If you
 buy ReiserFS, you can focus on your value add rather than reinventing an entire
 FS.

 BigStorage  (www.bigstorage.com)  contributes to our general fund  every month,
 and has done so for quite a long time.

 SuSE (www.suse.com)  pays for continuing work on journaling for version 3, paid
 for much of the previous version 3 work, and is paying for Chris and Jeff to do
 V3 maintenance. Reiserfs integration in their distro is consistently solid, and
 they were key to our becoming widely used.

 Lycos Europe  (www.lycos-europe.com)  had  a  support  contract  with  us  that
 consistently came in just when we would otherwise have missed payroll, and that
 they kept doubling every year. Much thanks to them.

 Many persons came to www.namesys.com/support.html,  and got a question answered
 for $25, or just gave us a small donation there.

 Thanks to all  of those sponsors,  including  the secret ones.  Without you, we
 would each still have that day job.
	/*
	Copyright 1996-2004 by Hans Reiser, licensing governed by
	reiserfsprogs/README.
	*/

	Hans Reiser was the project initiator, source of all funding for the first 5.5
	years. He is the architect and official maintainer.

	Vladimir Saveliev started as the most junior programmer on the team, and became
	the lead programmer. He is now an experienced highly productive programmer. He
	wrote the extent handling code for Reiser4, plus parts of the balancing code
	and file write and file read.

	Alexander Zarochentcev (zam) wrote the high low priority locking code, online
	resizer for V3 and V4, online repacker for V4, block allocation code, and major
	parts of the flush code, and maintains the transaction manager code. We give
	him the stuff that we know will be hard to debug, or needs to be very cleanly
	structured.

	Nikita Danilov wrote most of the core balancing code, plugin infrastructure,
	and directory code. He steadily worked long hours, and is the reason so much of
	the Reiser4 plugin infrastructure is well abstracted in its details. The carry
	function, and the use of non-recursive balancing, are his idea.

	Vladimir Demidov wrote the parser for sys_reiser4(), the V3 alpha port, part of
	the V3 journal relocation code, and helped Hans keep the business side of
	things running.

	Chris Mason wrote the journaling code for V3, which was enormously more useful
	to users than just waiting until we could create a wandering log filesystem as
	Hans would have unwisely done without him.
	Jeff Mahoney optimized the bitmap scanning code for V3, and performed the big
	endian cleanups.

	Elena Gryaznova performed testing and benchmarking.

	Oleg Drokin was the debugger for V3 during most of the time that V4 was under
	development, and was quite skilled and fast at it. He wrote the large write
	optimization of V3.

	Edward Shishkin wrote the encryption and compression file plugins, and the V3
	journal relocation code.

	Alexander Lyamin keeps our hardware running, and was very generous to our
	project in many little ways.

	Vitaly Fertman wrote fsck for V3 and maintains the reiserfsprogs package now.
	He wrote librepair, userspace plugins repair code, fsck for V4, and worked on
	developing libreiser4 and userspace plugins with Umka.

	Yury Umanets (aka Umka) developed libreiser4, userspace plugins, and all
	userspace tools (reiser4progs) except of fsck.

	Joshua Macdonald wrote the first draft of the transaction manager. Yuri Rupasov
	did testing and benchmarking, plus he invented the r5 hash (also used by the
	dcache code). Yura Rupasov, Anatoly Pinchuk, Igor Krasheninnikov, Grigory
	Zaigralin, Mikhail Gilula, Igor Zagorovsky, Roman Pozlevich, Konstantin
	Shvachko, and Joshua MacDonald are former contributors to the project.

	Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote the teahash.c code for V3. Colin Plumb also
	contributed to that.

	The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA, www.darpa.mil) is the
	primary sponsor of Reiser4. DARPA does not endorse this project; it merely
	sponsors it.

	Continuing core development of ReiserFS is mostly paid for by Hans Reiser from
	money made selling licenses in addition to the GPL to companies who don't want
	it known that they use ReiserFS as a foundation for their proprietary product.
	And my lawyer asked 'People pay you money for this?'. Yup. Life is good. If you
	buy ReiserFS, you can focus on your value add rather than reinventing an entire
	FS.

	BigStorage (www.bigstorage.com) contributes to our general fund every month,
	and has done so for quite a long time.

	SuSE (www.suse.com) pays for continuing work on journaling for version 3, paid
	for much of the previous version 3 work, and is paying for Chris and Jeff to do
	V3 maintenance. Reiserfs integration in their distro is consistently solid, and
	they were key to our becoming widely used.

	Lycos Europe (www.lycos-europe.com) had a support contract with us that
	consistently came in just when we would otherwise have missed payroll, and that
	they kept doubling every year. Much thanks to them.

	Many persons came to www.namesys.com/support.html, and got a question answered
	for $25, or just gave us a small donation there.

	Thanks to all of those sponsors, including the secret ones. Without you, we
	would each still have that day job.