Published at LXer:

Edward Shishkin, the lone developer that took over development of the Reiser4 file-system following the conviction of Hans Reiser, has shared a new update with Phoronix regarding the efforts towards pushing Reiser4 into the mainline Linux kernel. Reiser4 has been in development going back to 2004 and had a promising future until the conviction of Hans Reiser and demise of his Namesys company following the murder of Reiser's wife, but since then it's development has been stagnate. In late 2009 I was told by Edward Shishkin that Reiser4 may go for mainline inclusion in 2010. Before pushing again for mainline integration he wanted to publish an article in a scholarly magazine regarding Reiser4's design in order to facilitate some independent expert review.

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