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This link captures the confusion about how to pronounce "fsck":
https://lwn.net/Articles/190223/
Here's the truth. Ted Kowalski, username frodo, may he rest in peace, was the original author, just down the hall from my office in Murray Hill, and his name for the program had a 'u' where there is now an 's'. Management made him change it for distribution, but they couldn't make him change his pronunciation.
@robpike oh man, all those mentions of Hans Reiser in the comments section have aged... interestingly.
@CatherineFlick I double-checked his Wikipedia article, and apparently the date of his wife's disappearance was in September 2006... 2 months after the comments about him here were made.
@egallager yeah he was a piece of work at the time, I remember the flame wars! And then XFS came to Linux and (after a few teething problems) everyone breathed a sigh of relief
@CatherineFlick @egallager Unfortunately, he was widely understood online to be rage-prone before the murders happened—I was never a kernel guy but I still knew, for example. I don’t know if anyone closer to the kernel understood to what extent it happened offline, though.
@luis_in_brief @CatherineFlick @egallager I didn’t invite him to the file systems workshop because, basically, he was a creep. The event I specifically remember is going to a talk he gave about reiserfs that he illustrated with naked CGI women with code or tree bark for skin. Some didn’t have heads, others sat on weird… projections… No way I was spending two days in the same room as him
