The Reiser4 Filesystem

Google TechTalks
February 6, 2006

Han Reiser

Hans Reiser was concerned that hierarchical and relational naming systems add structure not inherent in the information, and that boolean algebra fails to represent structure, and so he develeoped a set of semantics which attempt to match rather than mold structure.

He then founded Namesys in 1993 when he went to Russia and hired a small team of programmers to implement the storage layer for these semantics, known as the Reiserfs filesystem for Linux. He spent 5 years arguing over algorithms on evenings and weekends, and working day jobs in Silicon Valley, and then finally the code started to work well enough that he could quit the day jobs.

Then...

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[michelbisson2]

Anybody judging this man for what he has done hasn't seen much of his/her inner potential as much in the constructive side as in the destructive side. It feels to me as a great tragedy that he has gone so far as to kill someone, and also a great tragedy that he was forced to prison instead of mandatory therapy.

We are not really civilized yet if punishment/prison is the only solution we have to such situations. I hope we can do better in the future to our fellow human beeings.

[EliteROOTdotCOM]

Obviously you have no brain attached.

[bonchbonch]

@michelbisson2 What about what Reiser did to a fellow human being? How civilized was he? We can do better for humanity by jailing the murderers so they don't kill us off.

[tpederse]

killer talk!

[jpm000001]

do no evil huh google? Well, this potential murderer doesn't work for google, so it's ok.

[adriennerox08]

Maybe you didn't really see their family life... he did kill her, and led the police to the body.

[makkertje]

What a fucking murderer ..... this sociopath is finally convicted

[pysiakk]

Trial's over. What happens to his company and to the filesystem now ?

[lejonicom]

Oh nvm. Trial seams to be over now.

[lejonicom]

Please! Leave this to the court of law!

Keep you speculations to yourself, at least until the trial is over.