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The File-System Fallout of the Reiser Verdict

Posted by timothy on from the work-from-home dept.

perlow writes "Yesterday, the Open Source community took an emotional hit when veteran Linux programmer Hans Reiser was convicted of first degree murder in the suspicious disappearing of his wife, Nina. While I won't go into the details of the case, as this has been covered extensively in the press, I would like to talk a little bit about how this verdict will impact the technology in play for file system dominance in our favorite Open Source operating system, Linux."

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  1. Dear Windows Users... by pandrijeczko · · Score: 3, Funny
    ...Bill Gates strangles puppies & treads on the heads of kittens.

    Please stop using NTFS.

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    1. Re:Dear Windows Users... by rrkap · · Score: 2, Funny

      ...Bill Gates strangles puppies & treads on the heads of kittens.


      Please stop using NTFS.

      But at least Bill Gates hasn't killed his wife.

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    2. Re:Dear Windows Users... by Jeremiah+Cornelius · · Score: 2, Funny

      Just wait 'til he writes his own filesystem... Then, Melinda watch out!

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    3. Re:Dear Windows Users... by rrkap · · Score: 4, Funny

      He did. But the FAT file system has only succeeded in making others want to kill.

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    4. Re:Dear Windows Users... by graveyhead · · Score: 4, Funny

      Paterson got FAT from Microsoft

      I'm sure he's not the only one.

      Baaazing! Thankyou thankyou I'll be here all night.
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    5. Re:Dear Windows Users... by Shakrai · · Score: 4, Funny

      But at least Bill Gates hasn't killed his wife.

      That's because she'd kick his ass if he tried ;) Seriously, have you seen Bill Gates? ;)

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    6. Re:Dear Windows Users... by Malevolyn · · Score: 2, Funny

      So what you're saying is I can't blame Bill anymore?

      My life is over.

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    7. Re:Dear Windows Users... by fm6 · · Score: 3, Funny

      Yes, anything that computes is a computer, and anything that swims in the ocean is a fish. Now go away, the grownups are talking.

  2. A different kind of file system? by adnonsense · · Score: 4, Funny

    Will Hans suddenly develop an interest in cake-based file systems?

    1. Re:A different kind of file system? by ttapper04 · · Score: 2, Funny

      yes, but due to the crappy cake served in prison it will be running windows.

    2. Re:A different kind of file system? by kabloom · · Score: 4, Funny

      No. All he needs to do is

      mkdir("tmp");
      chroot("tmp");
      chdir("..");

  3. Re:Answer= by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    you missed a " ' ".

  4. Re:The same as it affected... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Otherwise, Walmart would be bankrupt!

    Apart from money, they are.

  5. Re:Develop from Prison by Applekid · · Score: 5, Funny

    Indeed. I look forward to PrisonFS, where you can hide cigs inside the hard drive and they just look like ordinary files, kernel modifications to allow for self-tattooing code (with needles of questionable sterility, of course), and a new kind of distributed computing system where workgroups of computers can form a sort of "gang" in which they bust caps in other competing computers that gain access to their LAN.

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  6. Re:I'm hoping... by Hal_Porter · · Score: 3, Funny

    The other issue I have with Hans is why didn't clean up the blood properly? You wouldn't see Dave Cutler making that sort of mistake. I think if someone can't clean up blood spatters properly, I wouldn't want them writing kernel mode code. It might have memory leaks.

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  7. Re:Offtopic? WTF? by pandrijeczko · · Score: 2, Funny
    For the learning-impaired at "news for nerds", the parent's point was that the only thing that should matter to you or me about Hans Reiser is the file system he designed and the programs he wrote, and then only if you use the damned things.

    Actually, no. I really meant that Bill Gates strangles puppies & treads on the heads of kittens.

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  8. But... by initialE · · Score: 4, Funny

    The cake is a lie. And seriously, everyone knows that Hans shot first, why is this article even news?

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  9. Linux is for murderers. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    This story has shed a new light on the dangers of Linux. How many more people will die because some crazy open source developer decides to take out his frustration on someone nearby?

    For the sake of your fellow man, anyone who uses Linux should dump it and switch to Apple computers running OS X. It has the added advantage of not sucking.

  10. Re:Develop from Prison by tgd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine how he's going to feel when he realizes all the computers run Windows 2000.

  11. Re:Reiser FS is dead by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If Newton had killed his wife, I would fall up in protest.

  12. XFS by perlow · · Score: 2, Funny

    See, you forget one little file system, and someone gets pissed. XFS is nice, but its not exactly in widespread use.

  13. Re:I'm hoping we'll forget this now by hobo+sapiens · · Score: 4, Funny

    hey, go easy on him! At least he took a stab at it!

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  14. Re:I'm hoping we'll forget this now by punkrocher · · Score: 3, Funny

    - When it encountered problems, it crashed spectacularly. You didn't just lose a file or a block of a file, you lost entire trees and could get metadata instead of file data and vice versa. You could say it lost entire bodies of data... I'll be here all week! Thanks!
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  15. Re:Not a lot, really by ArsonSmith · · Score: 2, Funny

    Also do a web search for milFS. It's a great file system.

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  16. Re:Develop from Prison by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 2, Funny

    They used to run Windows ME, but the Supreme Court ruled that cruel and unusual.

  17. Re:I'm hoping we'll forget this now by Gojira+Shipi-Taro · · Score: 2, Funny

    good thing we only use them for backups, thanks to the tail packing (any other fs with that feature?)


    Well, I'm fairly sure that Hans' knowledge of "tail packing" will expand significantly now.
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  18. Re:BIOS is the true OS... by x2A · · Score: 2, Funny

    It loads the operating system, and provides some essential hardware support, but shouldn't take too much credit, they work as a team, there's no I in BIOS. Crap, unfortunate example... well some newer architectures have left the old BIOS behind anyway and the OS loads from EFI, and there's definitely no I in tha... nevermind.

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