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> What's wrong with performing 500 million operations on a file system? There is an expectation of very high reliability when it comes to file systems. And th
by paulmd 8y ago
> What's wrong with performing 500 million operations on a file system? There is an expectation of very high reliability when it comes to file systems.
And that's why my take for Hammer2 has been: sounds great, but there's not enough usage to shake out the bugs. DragonflyBSD is a 1% of the BSD community, which is like 5% of the total *nix deploys. ZFS has trillions of hours of drive-time. What does Hammer2 have? A great developer? Everyone knows one great developer isn't enough, there are bugs there and not enough usage to shake them out. He could be Actual Literal Jesus and he would still write a small minority of unpredictable, difficult-to-diagnose bugs that have to be sterilized out of the code.
(as a total nobody, on my part - it's just not good enough for even casual usage vs the competition here)
- unixhero 8y agoAt this stage DragonFlyBSD is a research OS and is not attempting to compete against anyone. It exists and innovates, that's what Matt does here. It is enjoyable to use as well!
- ceratopisan 8y agoHuge, multinational corporations with products in every house and business across the world also write a small minority of unpredictable, difficult-to-diagnose bugs. (Meltdown, Spectre, LazyFP, the next shoe that drops in a few days, for easy examples) Pick whatever is more fun to use.