Gregory's Server@robpike oh man, all those mentions of Hans Reiser in the comments section have aged... interestingly.
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@CatherineFlick I double-checked his Wikipedia article, and apparently the date of his wife's disappearance was in September 2006... 2 months after the comments about him here were made.  @egallager yeah he was a piece of work at the time, I remember the flame wars! And then XFS came to Linux and (after a few teething problems) everyone breathed a sigh of relief  @CatherineFlick @egallager Unfortunately, he was widely understood online to be rage-prone before the murders happened—I was never a kernel guy but I still knew, for example. I don’t know if anyone closer to the kernel understood to what extent it happened offline, though.  @luis_in_brief @CatherineFlick @egallager I didn’t invite him to the file systems workshop because, basically, he was a creep. The event I specifically remember is going to a talk he gave about reiserfs that he illustrated with naked CGI women with code or tree bark for skin. Some didn’t have heads, others sat on weird… projections… No way I was spending two days in the same room as him  @egallager @robpike For a while there a few decades back, my “Bonnie” filesystem benchmark was fairly influential. The only member of the fs community that got in my face about their results was Reiser. Just awful. I *probably* wasn't at risk of death… |
@egallager oh wow yeah