On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 01:15:45 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 October 2006 23:02, Wesley Parish wrote: > > I'm thinking that if he's out of action for long enough, > _IF_ he is found guilty, I fear that he might well suffer the ultimate > penalty. I'm not sure what California does to perpetrators of pre-meditated > murder. > > > people will fork it, and it'll carry on from there. > I think ReiserFS will probably survive, because it's made it into Linus' > kernel, but I feel that Reiser4 quite possibly won't simply because it > hasn't. It's a great pity because it has some splendid ideas which make it > pack the data into the disk sectors extremely tightly, which in turn help it > run very quickly. Currently it has a few problems which I have discovered > recently. Goodness only knows what will happen in the future. > > For Hans' sake, and for those of his children, I hope this turns out to be > one > huge mistake, but somehow I fear not. > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/11/0142216 > > > Just my 0.02c > > > > Wesley Parish > > > > On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 20:59, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > > On Wednesday 11 October 2006 19:55, Nick Rout wrote: > > > > Hans Reiser Arrested On Suspicion of Murder > > > > > > > > http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/11/0142216&from=rss > > > > > > Yes, it's a disaster of considerable magnetude, not only for the family > > > in question, but also for us users of R4. I suspect that the police have > > > probably got it correct, but from what I have read so far it is pretty > > > tenuous circumstantial evidence. > > > > > > Still we do have the source, a fair amount of explanitory writing, and > > > lets not forget that there are other filesystems. Also Hans has not yet > > > been compelled to meet his maker. People on /. are positing that if he > > > has to do a long/life sentence he might well be allowed to continue to > > > work on it in prison. > > > > > > -- > > > CS Another nail... http://news.com.com/Novell+makes+file-storage+software+shift/2100-1016_3-6125509.html Steve
