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Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced (lore.kernel.org)
submitted 1 year ago by liori@lemm.ee to c/programming@programming.dev
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I've said this previously, and I'll say it again: we're severely under-resourced. Not just XFS, the whole fsdevel community. As a developer and later a maintainer, I've learnt the hard way that there is a very large amount of non-coding work is necessary to build a good filesystem. There's enough not-really-coding work for several people. Instead, we lean hard on maintainers to do all that work. That might've worked acceptably for the first 20 years, but it doesn't now.

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Dave and I are both burned out. I'm not sure Dave ever got past the 2017 burnout that lead to his resignation. Remarkably, he's still around. Is this (extended burnout) where I want to be in 2024? 2030? Hell no.

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[-] Techmaster@lemm.ee 73 points 1 year ago

Step 1: Don't murder your wife

[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 points 1 year ago

This must be a reference to someone, right? Casual femicide sounds a bit off.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 year ago

Awful and horrifying.

I think a lot of people don't know that about ReiserFS. 'Geek defense', wtf.

[-] danielton@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

I'm old. I was around for it. It was a shock to the Linux community.

[-] shadearg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I remember when ReiserFS was prolific as 'a beowulf cluster of' and stage1 Gentoo cred, which are also likely all but forgotten.

Hard to believe this is old time trivia now. Time flies.

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Oof. The filesystem was great though.

[-] Techmaster@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

The guy is definitely a genius.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 1 year ago

I think I'm missing something?

[-] banazir@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Hans Reiser developed ReiserFS, which was a good fs for it's time, and was then convicted of murdering his wife.

[-] Ragerist@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

On the bright side, he should have all the time in the world to code, after going to prison.

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