The Future of ReiserFS

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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday October 12, 2006 @12:15AM from the strange-days dept.

lisah writes "With the announcement of Hans Reiser's arrest this week, many people have been wondering what this will mean for his company, Namesys, and the future of his filesystem work. According to a report at Linux.com, employees at Namesys are circling their wagons and plan to continue working on the project 'in the short term.' One employee admits, 'we are rather shaken and stressed at the moment, although I cannot say we didn't see it coming.'"

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You know maybe... by ellem · 2006-10-12 00:19 · Score: 5, Funny

maybe she should have been so enamored with GFS. How about that? Huh? How about she just stop talking about how great Google's File System is FOR ONE MINUTE? Did anyone think bout that?

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In other news... by Dystopian+Rebel · 2006-10-12 00:23 · Score: 4, Funny

Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer reminded corporate customers that the Open Source model is dangerous to their business.

"I squirt a picture to you, you squirt multimedia back to me," said Ballmer. "Sure, boom boom boom, we can do that and we ~do~ do that. In fact, no one squirts better than we do. But with Open Source, you don't know whose rights you are violating when you squirt.

And worse, open-source programmers tend to have police records. I'm just sayin'."

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1. Re:In other news... by clickclickdrone · 2006-10-12 00:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  >no one squirts better than we do
  The thought of Balmer saying that just makes me shudder and not in a good way.
  
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2. Re:In other news... by pixr99 · 2006-10-12 03:27 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  There's a good way to shudder?
  
  Absolutely. Allow me to introduce you to the "O Face."
Re:Who cares? by Lord+Bitman · 2006-10-12 00:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Yeah, I know; but, http://www.mugshots.org/misc/bill-gates.html

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Finally, Linux has its killer app. by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-12 00:33 · Score: 5, Funny

And Netcraft confirms it.
Re:We saw it coming?? by jobsagoodun · 2006-10-12 00:50 · Score: 2, Funny

Didn't AOL PUBLISH this a few months ago?
"I didn't kill my wife!" by BeeBeard · 2006-10-12 00:54 · Score: 5, Funny

Well no, Hans Reiser didn't do it. A one-armed man sent by a pharmaceutical company did it.
1. Re:"I didn't kill my wife!" by JustOK · 2006-10-12 02:35 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  ...but I thought Hans shot first?
  
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Re:As expected by denebian+devil · 2006-10-12 01:03 · Score: 5, Funny

They forgot to mention the most important piece of evidence in their arsenal: They reviewed the AOL search records that were released and identified record #456365 as likely to belong to Reiser, and noted many suspicious searches such as "I hate Nina Reiser" and "how to kill Nina Reiser without getting caught".

The most offensive part of this evidence of course is that Hans Reiser uses AOL Search....
About the company by joaommp · 2006-10-12 01:13 · Score: 2, Funny

The company and the project should continue to run. A persons "personal life" should not be an excuse until the moment he/she is being missed in the project beyond reasonable.

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Re:We saw it coming?? by Henry+V+.009 · 2006-10-12 01:21 · Score: 2, Funny

There was a news story that Reiser was a suspect several weeks ago.

In the office meeting 3 weeks ago, we joked about the advantages of switching to Reiser FS, now that Reiser was going to jail. He'll have plenty of time to work on it, after all.
This was posted under "Hardware"? by david_g17 · 2006-10-12 01:28 · Score: 2, Funny

what? are people hardware or something?
Re:We saw it coming?? by Aethedor · 2006-10-12 01:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Why doesn't the police use Hans' Journal to recover his lost wife?

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I think the most shocking thing about this is by le0p · 2006-10-12 01:32 · Score: 5, Funny

that a Filesystem designer actually had a wife.

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1. Re:I think the most shocking thing about this is by maxwell+demon · 2006-10-12 02:46 · Score: 3, Funny
  
  A file system designer should know best how to give her a good fsck.
  
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Efficiency gains by InterruptDescriptorT · 2006-10-12 01:42 · Score: 5, Funny

If he did kill his wife, which is nowhere near certain, and then subsequently chopped up the body, I bet the pieces are of manageable size and spread evenly throughout a wooded area for easy, order-N retrieval...

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1. Re:Efficiency gains by anno1a · 2006-10-12 02:03 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Clearly you haven't studied how reiserfs (3 at least) works. It doesn't use block sizes, it puts the data as compact as possible and uses a tree to figure out exactly where it is. This is obviously important if the police is ever to have a chance at finding the body. He'll probably have an algorithm at home, such that if they find one piece, they can find the rest following that. :)
  
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2. Re:Efficiency gains by maxwell+demon · 2006-10-12 02:37 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  If you want to find her, just look out for dancing trees!
  
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Great by rbarreira · 2006-10-12 01:47 · Score: 2, Funny

However, Lyamin expresses the cautious hope that the case will go the "way we hope it will go."

I read this sentence like 3 times, each of them failing to get any information from it. Can someone help me?

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if you like reiserFS ... by kylie69 · 2006-10-12 01:50 · Score: 0, Funny

... collect some money to buy Hans a laptop in prison :P

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Reiser Sent to Userland Jail by Prototerm · 2006-10-12 02:05 · Score: 3, Funny

Anyone else see the irony here?

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Re:We saw it coming?? by Anonymous Coward · 2006-10-12 02:07 · Score: 5, Funny

The police is not exactly an organization which is known for its infallibility.

Man, isn't that the truth - they totally sucked after Sting left...
Re:As expected by Ledgem · 2006-10-12 03:37 · Score: 3, Funny

... with the accused fingerprints on it nearby some ashes that have remnants of the victims DNS embedded in the one tooth that survived the burning process etcetcetcetc.

e360, you have no chance of murdering Spamhaus and getting away with it - the police can find remnants of the DNS now!
Re:Problems for Namesys? by nuzak · 2006-10-12 05:04 · Score: 5, Funny

You mean your contract doesn't have a death yoga clause? I thought those were pretty much standard.

Damn, I gotta go talk to a lawyer.

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New Workplace Rule by Cid+Highwind · 2006-10-12 05:40 · Score: 2, Funny

When you would no longer be surprised to hear that the boss has been arrested on suspicion of murder, it's time to quit.

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Re:As expected by freeze128 · 2006-10-12 10:02 · Score: 2, Funny

You've been watching way too much CSI if you think this evidence isn't enough to take a case to trial. Not every murder case ends with the forensic investigators finding a tiny shard of a unique knife mande only once in history by the accused's next door neighbor which is metallically linked to the handle of a knife found in a dumpster with the accused fingerprints on it nearby some ashes that have remnants of the victims DNS embedded in the one tooth that survived the burning process etcetcetcetc.
I would say that *YOU* have been watching too much CSI, but then I noticed that you typed DNS when you really meant DNA. Good for you! You have been working on getting BIND correctly configured instead of watching medical dramas. Keep up the good work!

BTW: California Highway Patrol is CHiPs, not DHCP.
Re:As expected by accessdeniednsp · 2006-10-12 11:30 · Score: 2, Funny

...remnants of the victims DNS embedded in...

You know you're a geek when you mistype DNA as DNS.