After a trial that was a sensation in certain circles, Hans Reiser, the creator of the ReiserFS filesystem, was convicted of murdering his wife.
It is uncertain what will happen to the felon's filesystem, which is an open-source project with a devoted fanbase, but there are hopes that others will continue its development.
Meanwhile, IBM's developerWorks library is running a good guide on getting ready for the upcoming ext4, the next iteration in Linux's standard extended filesystem. Ext4's advantages over its journaling predecessor, ext3, include support for filesystems up to an exbibyte in size, journal checksumming, and timestamp granularity down to a nanosecond, among other cool features.
Personally, I am still anticipating ZFS on Linux, whose cool features include pooled storage and copy-on-write snapshots.
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