koverstreet

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by koverstreet 5d ago
People keep saying it takes 10 years, but that presupposes methods that never improve. Why would we keep doing the same thing over and over again? Wouldn't be much point in that.
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by koverstreet 5d ago
If you want to be a filesystem maintainer, you start out by doing the work involved. I'm afraid not all opinions are created equal, this isn't design by committee :)
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by koverstreet 5d ago
There's always one of two of you rabble going "You dared defy the kernel community! You dared defy Linus! Rabble rabble rabble!" Meanwhile, I no longer have to stress about whether I'll be about to get bugfixes out, actu
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by koverstreet 6d ago
It's hard to show with any accuracy how likely a filesystem is to not break when the SHTF or something weird happens, or if they've handled all the weird corner cases, with any kind of automated test. For that you have to dig into
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by koverstreet 6d ago
Within the last year? I think bcachefs is going to be overtaking btrfs soon on active developers, from the trends I saw in the commit logs
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by koverstreet 6d ago
Uhh, do you know what the upstream stance is on testing and fixing bugs? I doubt there'd be any real interest in a bastardized fork that only exists so the deep pocketed vendors can get away with code dump and run.
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by koverstreet 6d ago
Yes, has been for awhile
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by koverstreet 6d ago
NixOS thoroughly solves all the external module fragility. They also do distro level CI testing.
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by koverstreet 6d ago
No urgency over fixing bugs? What do you think this is, btrfs? :) All this has been discussed to death, we don't need people armchair quarterbacking a year later. It's over, it's time to move on.
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by koverstreet 6d ago
bcachefs on Arch is a bit better supported, we have the distro package maintainer in the bcachefs IRC channel, and I've never lagged on mainline support like ZFS has. Actual distro support, and doing it right with people actually commu
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by koverstreet 6d ago
I think the Phoronix test suite does pretty well for the end user who wants something easy to digest; the exact choice of benchmarks is sometimes odd but the harness itself is quite good. At some point I'd like to get our own automated
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by koverstreet 6d ago
If you have "refine until it's perfect and don't screw with things you don't understand" thoroughly ingrained, along with the dangers of overconfidence, you'll do fine with AI. Not everyone gets it though, that
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by koverstreet 6d ago
NixOS. You can't go wrong.
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by koverstreet 6d ago
Speaking as someone who consumes this, I appreciate how it's laid out. As a developer, we can often see at a glance where the bottleneck is if we have enough data laid out - IOW, data overload for you is me feeling like a kid in a cand
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by koverstreet 6d ago
Appreciate it :)
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by koverstreet 6d ago
I'd really appreciate it if we could drop the FUD over contribution rules. There are no such rules, it is explicitly Linus's way or the highway, and I already replied to that elsewhere. And it went in when it did because Redhat wa
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by koverstreet 7d ago
Meta doesn't have anyone working on btrfs anymore, it appears to be two guys at SuSE and drive bys.
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by koverstreet 7d ago
I was very up front about where we were at. A lot of things were tried, people did try to mediate. The particularly galling thing though was when I finally started looking - post split - comparing bcachefs PRs to other subsystems and especi
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by koverstreet 7d ago
It really does. But you might want to check out the bus factor on btrfs too; when a maintainer says "but we've saved Facebook billions and billions of dollars!", calls for the other filesystem maintainer to be ejected from th
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by koverstreet 7d ago
I went back and forth with Hetzner a couple times, I think we just got a bad machine :) I've been saying it for months, but eventually I'm going to move the automated builds off the 48 core monster and we'll be able to use th
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by koverstreet 7d ago
It's just been a lot less drama within the project since the split. I do have a lot more pull requests to merge than I did before. I don't know if you want to count "Kent isn't reviewing PRs fast enough" as drama :)
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by koverstreet 7d ago
Why do people keep bringing up drama? The community infighting has sucked, but that's a thing that matters primarily for maintainers. I think most users just want something that works.
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by koverstreet 13d ago
Yeah, they won't. And if a threat to the human race does come from AI, it's going to come from OpenAI/Anthropic. Hypercapitalist, secretive, in bed with the government, plus multiple real documented hackings of open source in
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by koverstreet 13d ago
Who should I be more scared of? China, which has been doubling down on open transparent research, or the secretive US companies who are in bed with the most unhinged administration we've ever had and has been actively starting wars? Th
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by koverstreet 13d ago
"Trust us, really!" HAH
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by koverstreet 27d ago
Yeah, I'm with Theo on this one. Conventional OS security between Ring-0 and everything else is well understood; the problem has become too much code in Ring-0, a great fraction of which has its own interfaces across the security bound
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by koverstreet 1mo ago
Instead of railing about ideology, try comparing the actions of the U.S. and China over the past 20 years. The U.S. has been far more interventionist and aggressive; China appears to be maturing and the U.S. is regressing.
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by koverstreet 1mo ago
I consistently see a level of competence and professionalism in South America that has left the building in the states.
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by koverstreet 2mo ago
The maturity of leadership in China seems to be on a whole different level from the U.S. Lots of companies in the U.S. have fallen victim to that syndrome, but if you used the word "restraint" in that context in Silicon Valley mos
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by koverstreet 2mo ago
U.S. border agents really are just worse. Much worse. (I can't say what racial profiling adds to that, I can only speak to my own experiences). I've been routinely grilled and extensively searched many times just crossing between

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