<i>It&#x27;s hard to know if someone who&#x27;s committed antisocial acts didn&#x27;t leave landmines in code or is hard to work with when it comes to support of issues or community discussions.</i><p>No, I don&#x27;t see how that follows at all. It&#x27;s hard to know these things in general. Your adding of the qualifier &quot;committed antisocial acts&quot; is poisoning the well.<p><i>Paul Reiser (reiserfs) is a murderer</i><p><i>Hans</i> Reiser.<p>And his being a murderer has no relation to the technical quality of the file system. That said, ReiserFS is largely dead, and Hans Reiser is in prison anyway, so you can&#x27;t work with him even if you wanted to.