Hans Reiser charged with murder

Bill Campbell linux-sxs
Sun Mar 11 12:34:40 PDT 2007


On Sun, Mar 11, 2007, Ric Moore wrote:
>On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 14:42 +0800, Man-wai CHANG wrote:
>> > That would make for one helluva TV plot if Hans was innocent and someone
>> > set him up to get rid of him and his popular file system. 
>> 
>> reiseifs is popular? Really?
>
>I would guess that any filesystem that M$ doesn't hold the patent to
>would be deemed sinister to them. If they got geek-paranoid about it,
>they'd be afraid that it -could- become popular and therefor dAnGeRoUs. 

My experience with reiserfs is that it's eaten my data too many
times to be trusted -- it has nothing to do with the personality
of the author (after all I use djbdns and gcc :-).

Bill
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