ReiserFS

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MurderFS.

That's not kind, several people worked on ReiserFS even after Reiser was convicted of the first-degree murder of his wife. It's a sad story for them, they liked their product and the conduct of their leader betrayed them.

Yet they continue to brand their software in his name. Despite the community asking for a rename https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297, tech publications pushing for a rename: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reiser4#History_of_Reiser4, and Linux Kernel developers just wanting nothing to do with that name.

At some point, you have to wonder why the developers of a filesystem insist on associating it with a convicted murderer. Maybe stubbornness, edginess, a lack of awareness... or maybe they're friends of Hans Reiser.

I have no opinion about why the name of Reiser is still used, but in your first link there is no mention of Reiser.

In an Algolia search I can't find any conversation about a name change on HN:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Wrong link from me. I updated with the right one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21929297

Algolia search also supports comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

> Algolia search also supports comments Thanks, I didn't know that!

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