Hans Resier leads cops to Nina Reiser’s Body

Convicted wife-killer Hans Reiser, a “brilliant” Linux developer, led police Monday to what he said was the body of his wife, Nina Reiser, in the Oakland hills just two days before he was to be sentenced for first-degree murder, authorities said.

Hans Reiser, who had proclaimed his innocence from the day his estranged wife, Nina Reiser, agreed to reveal the location of her body in exchange for a deal in which he would be sentenced for second-degree murder rather than the first-degree murder conviction a jury returned against him in April, according to officials. The maximum sentence Reiser could receive for second-degree murder is 15 years to life. Reiser had faced a term of 25 years to life under his first-degree murder conviction. – Source SFGate The body was less than half a mile from the home on Exeter Drive where Hans Reiser lived with his mother.

Hans Resier was a highly respected Linux guru and is responsible for the brilliant ReiserFS, a file system like no other. At the time of its introduction, ReiserFS offered features that had not been available in existing Linux file systems:

• Metadata-only journaling (also block journaling, since Linux 2.6.8), its most-publicized advantage over what was the stock Linux file system at the time, ext2.
  
• Online resizing (growth only), with or without an underlying volume manager such as LVM. Since then, Namesys has also provided tools to resize (both grow and shrink) ReiserFS file systems offline.
  
• Tail packing, a scheme to reduce internal fragmentation. Tail packing, however, can have a significant performance impact. Reiser4 may have improved this by packing tails where it does not hurt performance.

Compared with ext2 and ext3 in version 2.4 of the Linux kernel, when dealing with files under 4 KiB and with tail packing enabled, ReiserFS is often faster by a factor of 10–15. (Source: Wikipedia) How could such a brilliant man commit such a heinous crime will always remain a mystery. Hans Resier will be sentenced on Wednesday.

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