After I saw that my “Archivist” plugin pulled a post from Dec 25, 2005, I remembered an article that I just read on Hans Reiser at Wired. Interviewer Joshua Davis interviewed Hans Reiser from Prison and wrote the interview. The interview got Slashdotted.
If I hadn’t tried Reiserfs (at version 2.9 or 3.0) and saw how much faster my desktop worked with this “unstable” filesystem keeping the pidgeons in their holes, I may not have paid much attention to the whole sensational drama surrounding this true Linux geek. So, where is Nina Reiser? Hubby’s in jail, arraigned on murder for a body that can’t be found. I think that she’s in Russia and he’s going to rot for nothing.
So, what does this mean for Reiser4? Is there going to be a Reiser4? Are the traditional supporters going to return? Suse? Hello? Of all the filesystems I have tried on the same kernel of Linux, Reiser had the best speed (especially v4), followed by EXT3 and then XFS/JFS. Microsoft’s filesystems didn’t keep up at all, running at the same speed as EXT2.
Surely, something good will come of this whole mess.
Everyone knows that Hans is innocent. I mean, c’mon! No true Linux geek has the time to commit a murder, let alone think of doing it in the first place.
So he still rots in prison while he waits for the decision to charge him or free him…
I’m amazed at the turbulent soap opera life he lived. I don’t associate linux with russian brides, murder, violent video games! I don’t know what to believe!
I have a phrase that I utter a lot, but usually at work: “It’s all CRAP!”
I think Opus the penguin framed him.