Hans Reiser - Sentenced

Hans Thomas Reiser, former Linux file system guru, was sentenced to 15 years to Life yesterday (Oakland, California). Hans confessed to the murder of his wife (Nina) as part of a plea bargain which reduced his minimum sentence from 20 years.

He claims to be putting Namesys and ReiserFS into a trust fund for his children, and hoped to earn money while in prison for them, "assuming I'm able to get access to a computer and the internet."

So what does this mean for ReiserFS? This probably finishes it off. Work on Reiser3 (which is included in the Linux kernel) stopped a couple of years back. Reiser4 is unfinished, and likely to stay that way.

Even assuming Reiser does get access to the internet and resumes work on Reiser4 is anyone likely to use it? You get the feeling it is going to be remembered as a "killer file system" for all the wrong reasons.