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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OS Developers arrested by uneek · 2006-10-12 00:27 · Score: 3, Interesting

Hi:

This makes me wonder how many other primary authors of open source projects have been arrested in the past and how this has affected their projects?

Uneek
Even if not guilty by L-s-L69 · 2006-10-12 00:44 · Score: 3, Interesting

The loss of his wife is likely to have a profound impact upon his work and any future development. I can only hope the community and the other developers are able to step up and carry on the work.
1. Re:Even if not guilty by QuantumG · 2006-10-12 01:20 · Score: 3, Interesting
  
  his ex-wife.. who's contribution to his work was to claim that he was earning money that he wasn't paying her to raise their children, when actually he was $100k in debt (yeah, couldn't see that coming "let's make a filesystem!" "let's give it away for free!" how could you lose money on that?!) This is one of the reasons why the cops didn't mind arresting him. He really does look like he wouldn't mind seeing her dead.
  
  Then again, who doesn't feel that way about their ex-wife.. except, ya know, those few freaks who part on good terms and have each other over for dinner with their new partners. *shudder*
  
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Re:We saw it coming?? by Speare · 2006-10-12 00:57 · Score: 3, Interesting

I think the "We saw it coming" quote was not in reference to the actual crime, but in the downwardly spiralling finances the group knew about. I hadn't even seen anything about this story until the LAST slashdot article, and someone linked some public emails that showed that the group was quite aware that doom was approaching.

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Some Related Reading by RAMMS+EIN · 2006-10-12 00:57 · Score: 5, Interesting

I've been reading a bit, trying to get a handle on what's been happening and what may be next for the people involved in this (I trust the filesystem will be fine). Here are the most interesting parts of what I've read:

AUTHORITIES SEARCH HOME OF MISSING WOMAN'S HUSBAND

ATTORNEY: HANS REISER 'DISTRUSTFUL' OF OAKLAND POLICE

UPDATE: POLICE CHARGE HANS REISER WITH MURDER

Missing woman's blood found in husband's house

All in all, it's very disturbing. I get the impression at least one of the people involved in this is completely insane.

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Re:Problems for Namesys? by jimicus · 2006-10-12 00:59 · Score: 3, Interesting

Depends how large the company was and how big a role the CEO has in running it.

In larger companies, the CEO generally plays golf most of the time.

In smaller companies, it's quite common for the CEO to be designing the products in great detail, and many a promising open source project has withered for lack of a leader - though I can't see that happening in the case of ReiserFS because it's too big and important.
Re:Life outside of coding by iBod · 2006-10-12 02:45 · Score: 4, Interesting

I think there's truth there.

Working intensly on one single thing (esp. software) just fucks your brain eventually.

Your partner, kids, family and friends should be the biggest kick in your life, not some stupid pile of fucking code.

I used to be really proud to be a software designer, thinking software apps were a big boon to mankind. The more I look around me, the more I think that computer tech (and particularly the web) is isolating and dehumanising us all.