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Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder
Many readers wrote about the arrest today of Hans Reiser, author of ReiserFS, by Oakland, CA police on suspicion of murdering his estranged wife. From the San Francisco Chronicle: "Hans Reiser, 42, was taken into custody at 11 a.m., hours after Oakland police and FBI technicians searched his home in the Oakland hills. His estranged wife, Nina Reiser, 31, has been missing since Sept. 3, when she dropped off the couple's son and daughter at his home on the 6900 block of Exeter Drive... Police made the arrest based on circumstantial evidence and have not found Nina Reiser's body, [Hans Reiser's attorney] Du Bois said. 'I have no idea what the circumstantial evidence is,' he said. 'When I hear what the evidence is against him, I'll make a decision as to whether he'll talk to them.'" kimvette writes, "While the disappearance (and possible murder) of his wife is tragic, Linux users will wonder where this will leave Reiser 4. If Reiser is found guilty, will Novell or IBM pick up the pieces and finish up Reiser 4 for inclusion in the kernel or is this the end of the Reiser filesystem project? Will there be any future for the Reiser filesystem, and if Hans is found guilty and the project is continued, will the project be renamed to avoid notoriety?"
I hope they let him code in prison.
The filesystem with killer performance.
What if he's found guilty, and the project is continued by other people, and renamed to avoid infamy, and Reiser loses his first appeal because his lawyer fails to subpoena critical records from the medical examiner's office, and Reiser 4 is finally completed and included in Linux 5.0, but develops stability issues, and around that time Hans is acquitted in a later appeal based on new evidence, and he rejoins the project? Will they change the name back?
-b
If I wanted a sig I would have filled in that stupid box.
Okay, so I'm not a good person.
All Reiser has to do is roll back the journal on his wife's deletion. Problem solved by superior software!
There. How's that for tasteless?
I say we get a posse together and break him out. Anyone else in on this?
I know, Microsoft have paid the police to do this, to discredit a Linux FS?
Totally, dude. Like, this one time, Micro$uxx paid this chick to be this like hardcore open-source dude's girlfriend, and like, she made him chili with peanuts in it, which he like would like totally have died if he ate it? Way of the world, man *massssssivvvee toooooke* way of the fuckin' world.
Shop as usual. And avoid panic buying.
I don't know. If you ask me using a filesystem associated with a murder would be WAY METAL . . . . .
He discovered she was a beta tester for Microsoft and had Windows Vista installed.
of trying to kill off ext3!
Thank you thank you - I'll be here the rest of the week...
creation science book
Well, J and X haven't been arrested for murder either.
Looks like you'll be able to choose either, if he shows up in this game...
(Some of us remember it when it was called Phoenix...)
I am TheRaven on Soylent News
Better than supporting Microsoft.
[kidding! kidding!]
I say Reiser4 is crap from experience. It ran our system load through the roof and paralyzed us for 3 days until we pulled an all night session to move 1Tb of data to JFS, which has yet to cause a system freeze.
You know, he'll probably make bail... I'd check your doors and window locks twice tonight if I were you.
I trusted Mr. Reiser with my mp3 archive once before. I still haven't found all the original CDs to replace the corrupted files. Never again.
Wow! You have an anecdote about a bad experience with ReiserFS. I'm sure that JFS has never had any bugs.
Long ramble short? Within a week or two no executive is going to remember who this Reiser guy is, let alone that his filesystem may be powering their systems... and that's ASSUMING someone points them to this news article and they make the connection in the first place.
Well, it's not like the guy killed anyone..
Oh, wait...
The name is not tainted. Whatever one's opinion of Hans Reiser (I personally have none), ReiserFS is pretty much universally accepted as a very fine filesystem, and there's no reason why that should change.
;-)
However, having said that, it might in fact be a plus to describe it as a killer filesystem...
*ducks*
/lost+found ofcourse. No wait!
...to ext3 until this is all resolved.
In fact, it's probably a bad idea to tell your CEO that his filesystems are FAT. You may lose your job.
Filesystems don't kill people...people kill people.
ReiserFS will now be known as the killer app for Linux.
Apparently Reiser not only deletes files, but wives, too.
-R
It wouldn't be the first time that ReiserFS has been under suspicion because data went missing, presumed corrupted.
I am SO glad I use XFS!
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
>>> Is their a reason why he can't continue working on this project from jail?
Er, it might be a little difficult to type when you're bent over the keyboard?
Microsoft has just released their much anticipated hands-free cordless mouse. Warning, it may hurt a little at first.
Isn't there some kind of immunity for authors of large open source projects?
If he is found guilty, the name of the filesystem will have to be changed, too. Otherwise it will fall into obscurity along with MansonFS, OswaldFS and the great-but-forgotten object-based, journalling OJSimpsonFS.
Free as in mason.
WTF has this got to do with my rights on line?
DalmerOS failed to gain ground due to unwanted eating of data.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
Hmm, good point... Maybe his wife was an adamant supporter of a competing file system?
Slashdot's first reaction to VMware
Subject says it all
Slashdot should be left to rot in prison
Search the code. I was always joking you could hide a corpse in the ReiserFS code, but jeez...
Could be worse. Could be raining.
He caught his wife using ext3.
Is is possible for filesystems to inherit personality traits from their programmers?
I always wondered why ReiserFS was so damn unstable
Because clearly, 20% is the same as "most".
Also clearly, psychopaths at most go to prison twice as much as the normal run of the mill non-psychopaths, therefore 20% in prison clearly equates to at *least* 10% outside..
Riddle me this: If being psychopathic didn't result in a much greater likelihood of violent criminal behaviour, why the hell do we care about it again?
...when using the OJSImpsonFS, or you might get fstab'ed to death!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
Funny how things can take on a whole new meaning.
Try: /root/recovery.log /dev/path/to/wife
r ecovery_howto.comments
reiserfsck --rebuild-tree -S -l
http://antrix.net/journal/techtalk/reiserfs_data_
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Rename the file system to "Kimble".
No. It's worthwhile to deter the 100% of potential future murderers by promptly executing the ones we do manage to catch and convict.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.