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Pierre Menard, author of The Filesystem. But I'm surprised this is possible without a specification - how can you test a filesystem through hexdumps? The effec

Pierre Menard, author of The Filesystem. But I'm surprised this is possible without a specification - how can you test a filesystem through hexdumps? The effects of some operations are going to pretty far-reaching, surely?

randrus 7y ago
Might be interesting/useful to aim for zfs send/receive compatibility :) And thanks for the Borges callout.
aerovistae 7y ago
One of my favorite short stories, and nobody else has ever read it. So glad to see someone else reference it.
- hueving 7y ago
  Link?
  - iiv 7y ago
    The original title is "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote": http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html
cryptonector 7y ago
There are lots of blog posts, lots of docs. There's ZFS code in GRUB that is GPL, etc.