Posted on 04/29/2008 4:47:24 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Linux visionary Hans Reiser has been convicted of first-degree murder for killing his estranged wife in 2006 and faces life imprisonment.Reiser, founder of Namesys which develops the Linux-based Reiser file systems, was charged with the deliberate and premeditated murder of Nina Reiser by an Oakland, California courthouse after an almost six-month trial.
The fate of the troubled ReiserFS and Reiser4 file systems may be sealed, following media reports that Namesys has ceased commercial activity and the rapid loss of support for the latter system in the open source community.
ReiserFS was the first journaling file system included in the Linux kernel and is the default system for a number of distributions including Elive, Linspire, and Xandros.
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Why does his conviction "seal the fate" of ReiserFS and Reiser4? Is there another popular journaling FS out there?
Several. The most commonly used, even more so than ReiserFS, is ext3. ReiserFS can be faster under certain circumstances, although ext3 has other advantages over ReiserFS such as lower CPU utilization.
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