pimeys

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[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Isn't it funny that the most popular file system in the world has such a codebase, and it is not even well documented how it works!

I have my reasons to choose XFS or bcachefs with my machines.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 7 points 2 months ago

Yes and no. Linus can yell to people and he does, he can force his say as he has been recently doing by expecting sched_ext to land in 6.12. BUT. Linux is a bazaar, it's so big and there are so many different factions forcing them to do anything is going to take a long time. Lots of different teams are working on Linux, with their own priorities.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 36 points 2 months ago

And LLM is mostly for investors, not for users. Investors see you "do AI" even if you just repackage GPT or llama, and your Series A is 20% bigger.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 33 points 2 months ago

The borrow checker is exactly what the kernel needs.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 34 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Ted is the maintainer of ext4 and there are not many people in the world who understand this code.

For Rust to succeed, it has to get the subsystem maintainers to agree. It is going to be many years of petting very angry bobcats...

And that is not even the worst I've heard, makes you a bit numb if you follow LKML.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 8 points 2 months ago

Upper middle class gays somewhere in Gilbert Arizona who just want to see their retirement savings to go zoink. You have your walled swimming pool and Trader Joe's nearby.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Wait, the article says to use parmesan, eggs, pancetta and spaghetti? Uh, it is pecorino, eggs, guanciale and spaghetti. This is basically the only way to get the best results. You can fuck with any other italian pasta, but carbonara is only good if done exactly with these four ingredients. And of course a ton of black pepper.

I know, I tried every possible combination. The only one that makes sense is the one with pecorino and guanciale.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Did so years ago. Everybody uses it from my family and friends. I've had a very active group chat there for eight years with friends. My mom uses it actively, even calls me using Signal. My partner knows it is the best chat app and actively uses it.

I just asked ages ago for everybody to switch to signal, they valuated the features and for a group chat automatically deleted messages and strong encryption were really interesting for everybody. Now we can shoot shit in a group chat without needing to worry that the logs are stored somewhere forever.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 1 points 2 months ago

Me neither, but the risk is there and well documented.

The point was, ZFS is not great as your normal laptop/workstation filesystem. It kind of requires a certain setup, can be slow in certain kinds of workflows, expects disks of same size and is never available immediately for the latest kernel version. Nowadays you actually can add more disks to a pool, but for a very long time you needed to build a new one. Adding a larger disk to a pool will still not resize it, untill all the disks are replaced.

It shines with steady and stable raid arrays, which are designed to a certain size and never touched after they are built. I would never use it in my workstation, and this is the point where bcachefs gets interesting.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 23 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

But they give their data when the officials ask. That is all that matters. And I seriously hope none of us uses Telegram or WhatsApp to any discussions. Use Signal because that is so far pretty unbreakable.

Telegram is already in the hands of that tiny Russian old man and WhatsApp is owned by a lizard.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 72 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

Signal always responds to authorities when they ask for data, and they give them all they have: the day they registered, their phone number and the timestamp they last used the app.

Telegram has unencrypted channels of drug dealing, and what I heard is a lot of illegal porn too. The authorities want information on certain users there and Telegram doesn't comply. This is directly against the law Signal is not breaking, because they always send all the data they have to the law enforcement.

[–] pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

But scrub is not fsck. It just goes through the checksums and corrects if needed. That's why you need ECC ram so the checksums are always correct. If you get any other issues with the fs, like a power off when syncing a raidz2, there is a chance of an error that scrub cannot fix. Fsck does many other things to fix a filesystem...

So basically a typical zfs installation is with UPS, and I would avoid using it on my laptop just because it kind of needs ECC ram and you should always unmount it cleanly.

This is the spot where bcachefs comes into place. It will implement whatever we love about zfs, but also be kind of feasible for mobile devices. And its fsck is pretty good already, it even gets online checks in 6.11.

Don't get me wrong, my NAS has and will have zfs because it just works and I don't usually need to touch it. The NAS sits next to UPS...

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