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Hans Reiser Apologies For Social Mistakes, Comments On ReiserFS Deprecation From Prison
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This is the best summary I could come up with:
ReiserFS file-system creator Hans Reiser who is currently remains imprisoned in California for murdering his wife in 2006 has commented on the Linux kernel mailing list by way of a letter exchange from prison.
Fredrick R. Brennan wrote a letter to Hans Reiser while he's imprisoned in California and recently received a lengthy response back allegedly from Hans Reiser.
The alleged letter was permitted to be transcribed and publicly redistributed.
In there he writes at length from his social mistakes, ReiserFS history, to the deprecation of ReiserFS, and the hopes he had with Reiser4.
An excerpt of the Hans Reiser letter.
It's a very lengthy read but for those interested it can be found on the Linux kernel mailing list.
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Well, he put his brand name on it and now his brand name is synonymous with murder.
Does he know we have ext4 and lvm now ?
What did reiserfs have that we don't have in lvm or btrfs ?
LVM has been around since 1998, LVM2 in 2003. I think he knows about it.
I guess he or she meant btrfs
It had a bunch of features that weren't in ext3, which was generally standard at the time, depending on how conservative your distro was.
It is still a cool thing, from reading about it. Could have some advantages of ZFS without performance penalties and complexity, if the project wouldn't die.
EDIT: Oh, there's Reiser5 .
Considering he seems to be under the impression that OCR still sucks enough that he printed his entire letter, he's probably not aware of recent computer stuff , (or he just writes like he's 11, I guess?)
Seems a bit excessive of a judgement - under the best of conditions, my cursive is an absolute horror show. Always has been, and I’ve zero need for it with any frequency.
Suffice it to say, he’s not writing under the best of conditions. If you’d like to judge the content/intent, that’s your prerogative. But the quality of his penmanship is an utter irrelevancy.