Toby ([info]wintrmute) wrote,
@ 2008-07-10 18:48:00
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Hans Reiser confesses, Nina's body found
Spotted this in the news today.. Well, I guess at least there's some closure now.
"Filesystem killer" Hans Reiser confesses, leads police to wife's body.

I haven't used his filesystem for a number of years now, but I remember way back, when it first hit the mainstream kernel. Compared to ext2fs, and just about everything else, it was amazingly fast. The next-gen version took took long to reach beta, but had some features that promised to be rather cool.

Feels strange that he turned out to have an apparently remorseless murdering tendancy :/

I mean I've heard of people doing strange things for their kids, but murdering their mother isn't the best way to settle a custody case. WTF?


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[info]abigailb
2008-07-10 09:40 am UTC (link)
The other option is just killing the children and possibly yourself.

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[info]wintrmute
2008-07-11 12:49 am UTC (link)
"Oh, I thought I was typing "rm -rf" on that old development machine, but actually I was in the wrong window, and instead erased my life and that of those important to me. Always check which windows you're in before committing those changes. You can tell the one that isn't unix, because you don't need to upgrade the system so often. (Although personally I think they botched the last release of the weather.)"

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[info]strawberryfrog
2008-07-10 09:48 am UTC (link)
This poses huge ethical dilemas. Work on ReiserFs can be assumed to be halted, and is unlikely to resume as long as it's called "Reiser" anything. Is the code tainted? Will anyone else touch it?

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[info]reddragdiva
2008-07-10 09:07 pm UTC (link)
"I'm sorry, I couldn't hear you over my cackling glee at a Linux kernel developer being jailed for murder" - Steve Ballmer

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[info]wintrmute
2008-07-11 12:54 am UTC (link)
V3 of ReiserFS hadn't been updated for years and years.
Version 4 was in development, and will almost certainly disappear totally now.
This isn't all that significant for the Linux community, now.
The best ideas from Reiser3 were incorporated into other filesystems years ago, and although V4 looked to have some cool ideas, they weren't really things that are widely required, and between XFS, JFS, ext4, FUSE, etc we have lot of useful features that are stable.
Some argue that Hans concentrated too much upon going after all these complex little "meta filesystem" features, turning the filesystem into something more akin to a relational database - which is all well and good, except that databases already exist and do their job very well.

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