OPINION
REISER’S GUILT
Jon Masters is a kernel hacker who’s been involved with Linux for over 22 years.
ReiserFS is known for two reasons, one far less savoury than the other. It was the first journalling filesystem to be added to the official Linux kernel. Unfortunately, more people today are likely to know of ReiserFS because of the actions of its author, who murdered Nina Reiser in 2006. Following the events, the company continued its work for some time, but eventually moved on. ReiserFS has languished for years. It still has users, and, of course, legacy filesystems may be out there for mounting. It was interesting, then, to see a message from Fredrick Brennan, who reached out to Reiser from prison.