Big discussion of the original source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39042626

When I was young, and I was first experimenting with Linux, I was kindof confused at being asked to choose a filesystem type.

I wasn't completely confused: I was a Mac OS user, and I had been around when the HFS+ filesystem was introduced to replace HFS. So I read through the documentation I could get, I learned how ReiserFS was a journaling filesystem, and decided to use it.

I kept on using ReiserFS as my preferred filesystem, any time there wasn't a need to use a different filesystem (for example, I continued using ext2 for /boot). I don't remember ever having an issue with it.

Then I started dealing with larger filesystems, and XFS was available, and I understood that XFS worked better on large storage. Around the same time, I learned of Hans Reiser being charged with killing his wife. I was confused and sad, but moved on.

I hope for all the best for Hans Reiser's children.

Meta: the missing comma compared to the original makes it very hard to parse at least for me as a non-native speaker.

I suggest just "Hans Reiser speaks from prison" or something.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/b98b29cf-27d9-49e0-b10b-1848399... for the actual letter