Hans credits his improved social and communication skills learned in prison among other details shared in the public letters.
I thought prisons were meant to cause more trauma and help ensure people never leave so as to increase profits?
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That's only for minorities and poor people.
And mainly in third world countries, like the US.
I get the sentiment but San Quentin is not exactly an executive retreat.
He is locked in California, a fairly progressive and leftist state i think , I am not entirely certain all that therapy is a good thing, i think i watched a documentary saying that psychopaths only learn from therapy how to be better manipulators and i feel like he sounds like psychopath even now.
With that said if he gets out of prison i think he should be allowed to participate in FOSS (when someone reviews his contributions), i can't help but wonder if his reportedly unhinged behavior on the kernel mailing list was handled better (e.g. mandating he will go to therapy) the murder would not have happened.
The prisons he was in previously definitely are not the touchy-feely kind. These days he's in California Health Care Facility, which is geared toward prisoners with significant mental health problems (notably, multiple serial killers). So, therapy of some kind definitely makes sense. However, Reiser's been denied parole each and every time he's been up for it (next review in 2025), so it is unlikely that he's getting out.
I feel like it is impossible to know enough details to make any kind of conclusions. I do not think foss should check criminal records though.
So who’s going to check.
That's why you can't check records
i feel like he sounds like psychopath even now.
I think it's rash to judge the tone of his writing like that. It can be a struggle to identify and admit one's flaws, and it's certainly a struggle for most people of the modern era to write elegantly with only pen and a few sheets of paper.
Some prisons might be better than others, some people might be able to withstand the system within and work on themselves.
Yes, most people experience prison in the way you described. There's always exceptions, and like someone else said it's in California. Not a left wing state but the closest you'll get in the US.
If the system was so great at rehabilitation the reoffender rate wouldn't be so insane.
I don’t think it’s an American prison.
Edit: Excuse me, he's in California Health Care Facility, which is a state prison which is geared toward patients with long-term medical needs (acute chronic diseases, debilitating injuries) and acute mental health needs (which Reiser definitely fits the profile of). He was transferred out of San Quentin some years ago.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
While ReiserFS is obsolete and will eventually be dropped from the upstream Linux kernel in Linux 6.10 is one last ReiserFS change that was requested by former lead developer Hans Reiser.
ReiserFS lead developer and convicted murderer Hans Reiser a few months back wrote letters to be made public apologizing for his social mistakes and other commentary.
In his written communications he also made a last request for ReiserFS in the Linux kernel: "Assuming that the decision is to remove [ReiserFS] V3 from the kernel, I have just one request: that for one last release the README be edited to add Mikhail Gilula, Konstantin Shvachko, and Anatoly Pinchuk to the credits, and to delete anything in there I might have said about why they were not credited.
Hans credits his improved social and communication skills learned in prison among other details shared in the public letters.
Per the indirect request by Hans Reiser, SUSE's Jan Kara has now altered the ReiserFS README file with the changes going in today to the Linux 6.10 kernel.
The change landed today as part of the linux-fs merge to Linux 6.10.
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Huh. For some reason, I thought he died a while ago.
whats the recommended method of dealing with old reiser partitions once kernel support gets removed?
Migrate now before you lose your data
Migrate them to a modern filesystem, presumably. ext4 is extremely reliable, btrfs is less proven but much more featureful with copy-on-write and snapshots.
This isn't any type of surprise, ResierFS was marked obsolete some time ago now.
Btrfs is well supported and stable
Yeah, people have been saying btrfs to be untested for more than a decade by now.
I like btrfs but I've personally had problems. Protip: DO NOT USE THAT WINDOWS DRIVER
i guess i'm asking how do i migrate them to newer filesystems once kernel support is removed. surely i'll still be able to modprobe it back in...
Use a kernel version that still has support to perform the copy before upgrading? If already upgraded, boot to the old kernel? Boot from a live iso that has support?
I mean, this isn't exactly a hard problem to solve...
I guess I gotta put an old Slackware cd in with that drawer full of reiser drives.
The 6.10 kernel has not even been released yet. Support has not been removed yet. It does not have to be an “old” Slackware CD.
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By the time I get around to shuffling through a bunch of old drive it very well could be!
Use an old kernel version (if yours doesn't still support it) and something like btrfs-convert to get a maintained filesystem instead. Works pretty well in my experience with converting other filesystems to btrfs.
Ty!
I think I’m just gonna burn a Slackware cd and put it in the drawer with all the reiser disks.
I agree with the other commenter recommending to migrate as soon as possible while the kernel still does support, but that does seem like a workable strategy if you can't for the foreseeable future.