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Linux file system developer: we're severely under-resourced (lore.kernel.org)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/programming
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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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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Step 1: Don't murder your wife

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Awful and horrifying.

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oof. The filesystem was great though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The guy is definitely a genius.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think I'm missing something?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh 😲

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Username checks out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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