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- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -17/+166He caught his wife using NTFS.
- evillawngnome, on 07/08/2008, -12/+89The problem we have now is that once we lock criminals up, they are ONLY a burden on society (license plate production not-withstanding). By allowing this man to continue to program, we could allow him to advance technology and do his time.
- solarwind24, on 07/08/2008, -4/+67This is sad to hear. ReiserFS is an awesome filesystem that many servers rely on. It's the best FS for a large nuber of small file and does wonders for mail servers especially. OpenSuse even had it as its default FS at one point. It's open source and therefore anyone can "maintain" the code. I really hope someone officially takes up the opportunity. I'd hate to see such an awesome filesystem's development collapse just because of this whole murder distraction.
I've even heard people on digg call it MurderFS. I mean, the creator murdered his wife. So all of a sudden the filesystem gets a bad name? Thousands of developers have put their time into the filesystem. It deservers anything but the reputation it's getting now. - gabacho2, on 07/09/2008, -1/+49Or even worse, she was getting FAT
- thenewnoise, on 07/08/2008, -2/+48look at all the features
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Comparis ... - Dracker, on 07/08/2008, -1/+46Inaccurate too. Reiserfs is not fading into obscurity. It's a killer filesystem.
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -8/+52I hope they give him a computer anyway
- sirhomer, on 07/08/2008, -17/+60Still that's basically saying you can get away with murder and still do the things you love to do. I don't think that should fly.
- zephc, on 07/08/2008, -3/+37Make him be the maintenance programmer for FAT12 and FAT16 support on Windows
- alexkreuz, on 07/08/2008, -4/+38Give him a PC without Internet.
That would be torture. - daverave999, on 07/08/2008, -9/+41Like: use Windows?
- OSuX, on 07/08/2008, -8/+34Did he hide the body in /lost+found/ ?
- traxen, on 07/08/2008, -4/+29Just the other day I was in a discussion with a friend and when I told him about what Reiser had done... and asked him about his feelings concerning the case and his face went into freeze mode.
He then said that he was using ReiserFS on his PC and ... now he wasn't sure at all if he could continue to use it due to the negative vibe that was fusing with the name.
So just to insure yourself for the future if you have your code in a project ... dont put your name on it if you are gonna screw up later on. You may just murder more than you wanted from the start. - illt, on 07/09/2008, -1/+25dugg.
i agree.
Varg Vikernes, the metal artist from Norway murdered a band rival. the longest sentence there is something like 21 years, and while he was there he had access to a computer. He made some very interesting (some really good) electronic dark ambient music while serving out his sentence.
American's love vengeance though (only first world country that still has the death penalty), so i'd imagine most people would digg you down for making such a statement.
By the way, Norway has extremely low crime rate. - jbmcb, on 07/08/2008, -0/+23Agreed - ReiserFS is a fantastic file system - I've used it on all my Linux boxes since Gentoo merged it into stable years ago. It's noticeably faster when compiling - disk latency seems nonexistent.
Isn't the group that maintains ReiserFS now pretty much seperated from Hans? I don't think development should stop - it's GPL'd after all. If you don't like the name fork it and call it AwesomeFS or whatever. - hamobu, on 07/09/2008, -2/+20Someone should adopt the FS and rename it. (Just don't rename it OJFS)
- inactive, on 07/08/2008, -4/+21If what you love to do is constructive and helpful to society, then yes you lucky punk and you should be allowed to do it. Plus you would still be locked up, just with a pc in your cell.
- TsuruchiBrian, on 07/09/2008, -0/+17I think they should just let this guy code his FS from prison. He is already going to jail and will not be able to kill anyone else for a while. Let's allow his 15 years of upcoming boredom be channeled into helping the open source community and the rest world. There is no sense in wasting this guy's talent stamping out license plates just because he killed someone. It's win win.
If I was going to jail, I'd be willing to maintain anyone's code, much less my own. I'd probably be willing to rewrite Microsoft Office in Fortran just to have something remotely interesting to do. - phybere, on 07/08/2008, -5/+22It's really a shame to see a mind like his go behind bars.
- Disillusion, on 07/09/2008, -0/+16That was really funny in a morbid way.
- Epistaxis, on 07/09/2008, -2/+16At least give him a hard drive.
- filmbandit, on 07/08/2008, -2/+16"When Reiser took the stand in his own defense, his implausible claims and erratic behavior in the courtroom largely undermined his efforts to convince the jury that he was innocent."
i kind of figured it would be the sleeping bag cover stained with his wife's blood, his car with the removed passenger seat, and the books about murder investigations. - mizatt, on 07/09/2008, -2/+15@tobtoh, this was murder, dude. windows millenium
- inactive, on 07/09/2008, -0/+13Wow...
This makes me love wikipedia more. Even though its an old revision. - tobtoh, on 07/08/2008, -11/+24@mizatt ... like run Vista?
- TsuruchiBrian, on 07/09/2008, -1/+14No it was in /tmp
- Ryan454, on 07/09/2008, -1/+14"developers don't seem particularly interested in taking a stab at maintaining the code"
haha stab - acceleriter, on 07/09/2008, -1/+13They can't let him have a computer. It might have a file in it.
- zephc, on 07/08/2008, -0/+12I'm pretty sure he was fragmenting, not DEfragmenting them.
- mizatt, on 07/08/2008, -5/+17They should make him do something painful to keep his computer running
- timbococ, on 07/09/2008, -1/+11did no one else pick up on all this wordplay? made me chuckle: "the effort could be DOOMED to bitROT, because devs... taking a STAB... large BODY of research... forgotten...LACK OF INTEREST IN KEEPING IT ALIVE
- phybere, on 07/08/2008, -3/+13Aye. It was good years ago, but as the article notes largely replaced by ext3.
- rac1234, on 07/08/2008, -1/+11Oh, tasteful.
- JonLatane, on 07/09/2008, -0/+10^Wow dude, that's a strong reaction over a very busy guy not helping you out for free. If you were using it for home use, I hope you understood the "this software comes with no guarantees" part of every OSS license. And if you were using it for a server (which would obviously be the worse situation), I would hope that a server admin would be capable of figuring it out himself. That is, after all, the tradeoff when it comes to free software.
I'm not trying to say Hans Reiser's some kind of great guy (the courts have already proven that false) but, in spite of your bad experience, his filesystem has been a great contribution to the Open Source world. "I hope prison crushes him utterly" in response to him not taking time out of his life to help your specific problem for *free* seems a bit much to me. - bnolsen, on 07/08/2008, -1/+11Reiserfs3 is pretty stable. This is reiserfs4 they're talking about.
I seriously doubt reiser3 is going anywhere. - rlbond86, on 07/09/2008, -0/+9In ext3, deleted files cannot be recovered, and JFS volumes can't be shrunk. Reiser does both.
- blackjack75, on 07/09/2008, -0/+9I am part of the people that think prison is a solution to take dangerous people out of the society, not means of revenge.
- illt, on 07/09/2008, -0/+9personally i don't see why someone would get upset for using a murderer's code.
unless you buy into all that karma crap. - bhavinp, on 07/09/2008, -1/+10hehe, how very appropriate.
- fydo, on 07/09/2008, -0/+8A real shame. ReiserFS is pretty awesome.
I don't see why OpenSUSE or someone (or even the kernel devs) wouldn't just take over the project under a new name. I'd be down with that. - inactive, on 07/09/2008, -0/+8Hilarious due to the concept. Sad due to the truth.
- yellowswan, on 07/09/2008, -0/+8He didn't say that he shouldn't be in jail, he just said that it's a shame to see a mind like his go behind bars. This is ambiguous and could just as easily be construed to be as condemning as your own sentiments, with a little bit more humanity.
As in – Yes, this is a terrible act that he's committed, utterly unforgivable, and he should certainly be punished. However, it's a damn shame he made this decision to (virtually) ruin his life and future– which were both more blessed and bright than most.
With that taken under consideration, one can state with certainty that he could have (most likely would have) contributed something good and valuable to the progression of mankind (in programming, as well as not taken the life of another, let alone his wife). As such, it's just a pity and a shame.
Get it? - centran, on 07/08/2008, -3/+10meh... I used to use ReiserFS. I liked it but there are other file systems.
I switched to ext3 for inter-compatibility reasons but there are plenty of options out there. - cquinnd, on 07/09/2008, -0/+7As long as the code itself was not used in the commision of the murder, then you should consider not placing any further implication on what is otherwise good work on the part of a person who did a very bad thing somewhere else.
Each and every one of us benefits in some way from the same technology that caused devasation on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but
we take from that things that we try to use to make the world better. - MMaster23, on 07/09/2008, -8/+15a shame .. it was a KILLER filesystem..
go ahead .. bury me down .. it was lame :p - diggenerate, on 07/09/2008, -1/+8does anyone know why he really killed her?
- ilgaz, on 07/09/2008, -0/+7People don't get the idea behind open source and gnu/gpl.
anyone can takeover project, change its name (if there is need) and keep coding it as long as the source provided.
Some scientists developed atomic bomb, did the scientific community stop using their theories, formulas? - Metasquares, on 07/09/2008, -1/+8The Internet you are posting this on was developed by the military. You should be disconnecting yourself now.
Also, if God killed all of the murderers, wouldn't that make Him a murderer as well? How would that work? - Charlesbian, on 07/09/2008, -6/+13lock him in a cell with a computer? isnt that what we basically do all day ourselves?
you guys are letting your love of linux distort your view of this man. he killed his wife. does that make him irredeemable forever? i dont know, im not a psychologist/god. should he be punished to the same extent as someone from a less educated background and lower income? hell yes. Linux is important, but not important enough (at least immediately so) to warrant a man getting special treatment. - Feyr, on 07/09/2008, -0/+6linux fs have acls now, have for a number of years
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