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BFS Creator Giampaolo Joins Apple

Posted by pudge on from the mmmmm-journaling-filesystems dept.

zephc writes "According to The Register, Dominic Giampaolo, creator of BFS, Be's journaling file system, has 'joined Apple as a file system engineer. He started last week.' As a Mac user and former BeOS user, I am delighted to hear this, as it has great implications for the future of filesystems on the Mac. The article is a great transcript with Dominic and another BeOS great, Benoit Schillings." Another user adds, "Interesting for a man who once said that Apple was the epitome of everything Be was not."

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  1. epitome by HughsOnFirst · · Score: 4, Funny

    "the epitome of everything Be was not".
    Still in business is the first thing that comes to mind unfortunately

  2. I doubt he'll be porting BFS to Mac by LordNimon · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Chances are, he was hired to work as an OS X kernel developer, not necessarily as a file system developer. And even if he was hired in the file system group, it's still unlikely that he'll port BFS to Mac, because that's a brand new file system and its existance would just complicate things. He may, however, work on adding journalling to HFS, much like ext3 is a "journalling version" of ext2.

    I've been looking at Linux kernel development jobs in my area, and all of them are for people with very extensive experience (over three years in the Linux kernel itself, for example), particular people who have developed a major component of the kernel itself. Of course, 99% of these people already have good jobs, so these positions will go unfilled for months. Anyway, my point is that it doesn't surprise me that someone like Giampaolo has joing Apple, because it's just part of a trend - only people who have lots of experience in the field are getting job offers.

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  3. Deja Vu by aztektum · · Score: 2

    Deja Vu

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    1. Re:Deja Vu by zephc · · Score: 2

      in all fairness, look at the date (it was submitted before the original about him made it to the front page):

      2002-03-30 17:14:11 Dominic Giampaolo joins Apple (apple,apple) (accepted)

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  4. Re:As in: 'a viable company' by Ratso+Baggins · · Score: 2, Insightful
    Oh so witty....

    I see this as a follow-on effect from the dot-bomb. Now tallented people a prostituting themselves, because they have to. Very very sad really.

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  5. Metadata by AK47 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm hoping he'll be working on a metadata solution for the Mac OS X filesystem. The transition from 9's file type metadata to X's filename extension has been a big step backwards, and the BeOS is renowned for its handling of metadata. Perhaps Apple hired him with an eye towards imporving things?

  6. Re:As in: 'a viable company' by Picass0 · · Score: 2

    Now tallented people a prostituting themselves, because they have to. Very very sad really.

    What, the guy gets a job with Apple and that's a bad thing? As if his work at Be was done out of charity?

    Did it occur to you that the influence of former Be developers could be a Good Thing(tm) for OSX?

    Also, any new file system Apple builds is going to be an open standard for the sake of Darwin development.

  7. Re:Who manages this Apple news section? by crazyj · · Score: 2

    I think you meant to say MacCentral is the REAL source for up-to-the-minute Mac press releases pretending to be stories.

  8. Re:It is easy to switch filesystems if done correc by mattvd · · Score: 2

    This is true. And they do it now: HFS+ and UFS