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ReiserFS and the Art and Artist Problem
Have you ever known someone whose technical brilliance was overshadowed by personal failings? This is the story of Hans Reiser, a software developer driven to create a superior Linux filesystem, but whose difficult personality got in the way.Then came the disappearance of his wife, Nina, in 2006. The investigation pointed to Reiser, ending with a murder conviction that shocked the... […]
Hans is off in Russia, chasing his dreams of file system domination, leaving Nina to deal with the realities of daily life: two young kids, a new country, a failing marriage. They’re seeing a man who’s so focused on his own vision that he’s blind to the practical realities of working within a community, of releasing and maintain code at the scale of heavily used operating system kernel. Espeically Henry K. Lee for his thorough reporting in Presumed Dead and to Fredrick Brennan for sharing Hans’s letter and for the web archive’s way back machine, because this didn’t happen that long ago, but a lot the webpages seem lost in the sands of time.
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