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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."

2 of 605 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Dear Windows Users... by nawcom · · Score: 0, Troll

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

    Please stop using NTFS.

    Mod up! This is parent is informational and quite serious too!
  2. ReiserFS sucked anyways by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Troll

    Anybody who's worked with it will agree.

    It's really great when it comes to irretrievably losing entire volumes of data. Not so great at anything else.

    Hans Reiser: blowhard, murderer, and half-assed coder.

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