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A Short History of Btrfs
diegocgteleline.es writes "Valerie Aurora, a Linux file system developer and ex-ZFS designer, has posted an article with great insight on how Btrfs, the file system that will replace Ext4, was created and how it works. Quoting: 'When it comes to file systems, it's hard to tell truth from rumor from vile slander: the code is so complex, the personalities are so exaggerated, and the users are so angry when they lose their data. You can't even settle things with a battle of the benchmarks: file system workloads vary so wildly that you can make a plausible argument for why any benchmark is either totally irrelevant or crucially important. ... we'll take a behind-the-scenes look at the design and development of Btrfs on many levels — technical, political, personal — and trace it from its origins at a workshop to its current position as Linus's root file system.'"
Will you also be enjoying your media in REAL PLAYER?
gor blimey guvnor you aint arf stereotypin us brits'.
As if fsck wasn't bad enough to use in business talks, now I have to get prepared for btrfsck
Maybe someday you'll be a Real Boy
Who cares? In a few years' time, this will be obsoleted by its successor, icantbelieveitsnotbtrfs.
Ahhh, but, it seems that you have assumed AC to be human. ;-)
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