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Linux 6.10 Honors One Last ReiserFS Request Made by Hans Reiser
- skilled 2y agoThe original letter Hans sent was discussed here, Hans Reiser on ReiserFS deprecation in the Linux kernel (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042626 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042626) - Jan 2024 (438 comments)
- shrimp_emoji 2y agoWhat dealing with filesystems will make you do is sobering. It's a cautionary tale.
- ThePowerOfFuet 2y agoFilesystems other than ZFS, anyway... ;)
- chaostheo 2y agoThat's true, only mkfs.xfs & mount is required, any tuning options are optional. Write to filesystem while cut host power, last written data is incomplete but filesystem is coming up. With zfs you will get good chance for loosing import pool and all created datasets and even all snapshots at once in that case, so send/receive server should have other power, usv is good for clean shutdown and even backup always good to know :-)
- lupusreal 2y agoI have high hopes for Bcachefs.
- noncoml 2y agoWeird that “Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator who also left -in a destructive way that erased the value of his contributions, and -that he was shown much generosity just makes it more painful.“ was changed to: “Mikhail Gilula was a brilliant innovator that has shown much generosity.” Looks like the one making the change didn’t understate the original comments? They should have stopped at “brilliant innovator”
- saurik 2y agoThey wording was reversed, however; I took this to be an explicit and intended way of righting the scales for what had previously been written.
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- mekoka 2y agoYup, Mikhail ftw. He first was the recipient of generosity, an edit later he's being credited for that same generosity. Let's see if Reiser's newly found magnanimity will let this generous slip slide.
- transfire 2y agoThink Jan Kara may have misread the part about generosity. But I imagine that’s okay.
- saurik 2y agoOr they decided to specifically take that wording and reverse it as a form of poetic justice on the original complaint?
- xenonite 2y agoAt first, I wondered why the third person in the letter is missing from the diff, but a paragraph has already been there anyways: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/fs/reiserfs/README https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
- ldargin 2y agoI'm glad to see he made that request, even from jail. Expressing magnanimity is a bit of freedom, in and of itself.
- hammyhavoc 2y agoIs he not in there to be punished though?
- polski-g 2y agoNo. Prison exists for incapacitation. It is to protect society from miscreants. If punishment and/or rehabilitation occurs, that is nice, but it is not it's purpose.
- rz2k 2y agoAre you making a specific distinction between prisons and penitentiaries?
- marssaxman 2y agoPrisons have a variety of purposes, depending on who you ask.
- Marsymars 2y agoTo clarify, and to make it easier for anyone who wants to do further reading, I'll note that being in prison is punishment, and the purposes of punishment are variously deemed to be retribution, deterrence, rehabilitation, and incapacitation. (And prison only as incapacitation doesn't really make any sense given that prison terms differ based on the crime.)
- avar 2y agoReiser's seeking eventual parole. He may be expressing magnanimity, but a smart psychopath in his situation would act similarly, given the incentives involved.
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- hammyhavoc 2y agoAm I the only one with a whole heap of mixed feelings on someone doing something asked by someone incarcerated who is meant to be being punished for murdering his wife?
- Koshkin 2y ago> meant to be being punished Who is the punisher is important.
- hammyhavoc 2y agoI don't feel strangers interacting with jailbirds and doing as they ask with repercussions unknown is smart. What if this is a jailbird messing with people on the outside? It's beyond what anybody should reasonably do.
- schoen 2y agoDo you have a theory for why removing his own public criticism of his ex-colleagues could potentially be harmful or malicious?
- hammyhavoc 2y agoTo me, it comes across as a "I can still affect you even from in here", but I am extremely cynical when it comes to murderers. The amount of press coverage that letter and granting his wishes got is completely unhealthy and still paints him as somewhat of a microcelebrity rather than a convicted murderer serving his sentence. If family members want to interact with him, that's their own prerogative. Complete strangers? Utterly bizarre and completely inappropriate, IMO, especially to then carry out his instructions. What in the fuck are people thinking?
- Faaak 2y agoAt least for me, I'm thinking it's funny the way US people see prison vs "europeans". Punishing vs rehabilitation