Hans Reiser Leads Authorities to Wifes Body

We haven’t covered the Hans Reiser trial to any great degree, due to it not being something of particular interest to most of our readers, but it’s a twisted tail regarding what used to be a very popular software developer. Hans was first accused of murdering his wife in late 2006, and since then the entire legal process and trial has taken well over a year and a half to conclude. When it did, he was found guilty, though no body was ever recovered.

That led many to believe that Hans could have still been innocent, but his sketchy demeanor worked to hurt more than help him. News is out today, however, that he led authorities straight to Nina’s body, proving that he was indeed the creep behind this horrible crime. His cooperation means he will be eligible for parole after 15 years, rather than the original 25.

What this means for ReiserFS is probably certain doom. Many of the largest Linux distributions gave up on the file system long ago, including SUSE, and it even seems to be getting weened out of the Linux kernel itself. We’ll have to wait and see, I guess. I do recommend reading the Ars Technica quickie article on this, though, if you happen to love play on words, like the one in the quote below.

Our postmortem analysis of the ReiserFS mailing list, however, seems to indicate that the project is already beginning to fall apart. Ongoing development has been relocated to kernel.org, but the effort could be doomed to bitrot because developers don’t seem particularly interested in taking a stab at maintaining the code.

Source: Ars Technica