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Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)

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Reiser is up for parole this year. The hearing is in March. I myself don't have a lot of public respectability, but if you are a CS PhD or occupy a notable position at a tech company you might be able to mail the parole board. Murdering your wife is detestable but I don't think he will ever find another woman to marry him and I don't think he would commit murder under any other circumstances. I don't think he is a co…

there's a lot of "don't think" in your post, and tbh, you're talking about someone who premeditatively killed his wife, hid her body, researched how to get away with murder, plead not guilty, and finally accepted a plea for 2nd degree murder in exchange for giving police the location of his wife's body. so, "if you're a CS PhD or occupy a notable position at a tech company", i would recommend some introspection on wh…

He's gonna be homeless, without family, with a 60 million judgement over his head. He's spent over a decade in prison. Justice has been served. If he gets out, he can start earning some money to pay his kids (who are the major living victims of his crime) that restitution AND he can do cutting edge computer science research that benefits the entire Linux community.

Sometimes justice needs to be more than just retributive.

Re: The ReiserFS Filesystem (2000)

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there any more information on how they accomplished this?

"Plugins" https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/V4#Software_Libre_... https://reiser4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/V4#The_Software_En... They have some text where it shows they thought deeply about the meaning of names and domains, and how to develop file systems, what is important, etc.

Thank you for the link - the whole page is a really interesting read.
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