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Certainly, I have an issue with this idea that everything a person does gets cancelled because the person gets cancelled. Particularly in this era of intense political polarization.... It is throwing the baby out with the bathwater.

The world is full of examples of art and science from troubled individuals; much of our foundational understanding of certain areas of science is derived from the learned experiences of inhumane research conducted by nazis or WW2 japan. Yet one guy murders his wife and suddenly we are all rejecting a perfectly cromulent filesystem.

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No, ReiserFS was unreliable by itself. Run fsck on a ReiserFS filesystem with a ReiserFS loopback image/wm, then your whole partition it's trashed.

ReiserFS and BTRFS are the only 2 Linux filesystems that truly ate my data. Everything else I was able to substantially recover from.

I've had really bad experiences with fat32 and xfat... back in the day it was pretty common to lose data due to hard drive or filesystem bullshit.

In any case, I was a technology journo at the time this happened, and I covered this story, but I don't recall encountering a lot of technical discussion... it seemed to be mostly "ew this guy murdered his wife". Which is entirely deserved. (If a little unfair to the creative work)

I wasn't much of a programmer yet so maybe I wasn't looking at the right discussions.

Reiser stored his email on disks in NTFS format, not ReiserFS. Strange.

I had XFS eat some data once. I somehow got it into a state where it wouldn't mount and wouldn't fsck. Luckily for me it was "just" my backup disk, so after a week of fighting with it I just gave up and reformatted (as ext4) and didn't end up losing much. Was eye opening though. I'd rather have a slightly less featureful fs that I have a chance of recovering…

I had the same issue with xfs. Seems to be fixed recently.

ReiserFS and BTRFS always seemed like the two big "performance over reliability" Linux file systems.

> Certainly, I have an issue with this idea that everything a person does gets cancelled because the person gets cancelled. Particularly in this era of intense political polarization...

I think it's the crazyiness of this era. We expect people to be either "100% good" or "100% bad".

Of course we, as a society and as individuals, are (unsurprisingly) deeply surprised when we find out somebody we like isn't "100% good" and can't accept that somebody we don't like isn't "100% bad".

[edit: this is not 100% related to Hans Reiser, of course, more on a general tangent].

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