Namesys was a California

California

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 corporation

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 responsible for the design and implementation of the ReiserFS

ReiserFS

ReiserFS is a general-purpose, journaled computer file system designed and implemented by a team at Namesys led by Hans Reiser. ReiserFS is currently supported on Linux . Introduced in version 2.4.1 of the Linux kernel, it was the first journaling file system to be included in the standard kernel...

 and Reiser4

Reiser4

Reiser4 is a computer file system, successor to the ReiserFS file system, developed from scratch by Namesys and sponsored by DARPA as well as Linspire...

 filesystems. It has been inactive since late 2007, and as of 2010, is listed with the State of California with a status of "Suspended". Owned by Hans Reiser

Hans Reiser

Hans Thomas Reiser is an American computer programmer, entrepreneur, and convicted murderer. He is the creator and primary developer of the ReiserFS computer file system, which is contained within the Linux kernel, as well as its attempted successor, Reiser4. In 2004 he founded Namesys, a...

, Namesys was based in Oakland, California

Oakland, California

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 and also operated in Russia

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. The company also provided support for Linux

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 systems.

The future of the company fell into doubt after Reiser was found guilty of murder and announced plans to sell the company to pay for his legal defense. Their website has not been accessible since November 2007. Edward Shishkin, a Namesys employee, was quoted in a January 2008 CNET

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 article as saying that "commercial activity of Namesys has stopped".

External links

• Official website - currently down
• namesys.com at Internet Archive
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• DARPA SBIR 2004.1 Phase I Award Winners
• File Systems in Linux