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On the one hand, that might be true, but I doubt that it's true enough in practice. Presuming competent PM's and data analysts, they've likely accounted for ind
by munchbunny 7y ago
On the one hand, that might be true, but I doubt that it's true enough in practice. Presuming competent PM's and data analysts, they've likely accounted for individuals vs. teams to begin with.
Even if they haven't and it's literally 0.1% Linux users, I think that it's unlikely a team will pivot on a sale because of a few users who insist on not using ext4. Instead, those Linux users will probably just end up creating ext4 partitions somewhere so everyone can get on with their jobs.
- michaelmrose 7y agoStorage is a commodity like toilet paper. If your preferred brand of toilet paper required you to remodel your bathroom would you do so or buy different toilet paper?
- munchbunny 7y agoI'm not sure how your analogy works. 1. Dropbox isn't just storage. If it was just storage, it would never have taken off. The reason Dropbox makes tons of money is because it's actually selling a process. Still commoditized, but it's not as lightweight as toilet paper. 2. If you feel like creating an ext4 partition is analogous to remodeling your bathroom, I would question where you choose to hold strong opinions. I think you have your analogy backwards. I'd happily switch out the toilet paper brand (the file system on one partition) in my bathroom (how my team and I manage shared documents) if that's what it takes to make the bathroom fit its purpose. Besides, Dropbox didn't kill Linux support, they scaled it down to ext4, which is a perfectly inoffensive choice of file system for an end user.
- michaelmrose 7y agoZfs has a lot of features over ext4 its not remotely equivalent. Replacing this functionality on ext4 requires an entire stack of alternatives. Worse if you opt to use zfs and ext 4 you now need 2 complete stacks or to use an inferior set of tools to be compatible with a commodity service.