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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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.
"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....
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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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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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: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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