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Cake day: September 19th, 2023

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  • It has most of the major features of BTRFS + tiered storage + per file/directory redundancy + native encryption support. It also seems to be architectured in a way that avoids the write-hole issue for RAID 5/6 that BTRFS has and therefore once that feature is added, it won’t be as likely to eat your data. It also had a better system for handling different sized drives.

    Overall, it seems like a redesigned BTRFS with the experience of bcache development and benefit of hindsight avoiding some of the early pitfalls that BTRFS had. It already seems like the ideal filesystem that does it all for single systems. Especially if Kent gets the backing he needs to fill out the rest of the roadmap, I really don’t see what other filesystems have to offer that are worth losing the other benefits.

    Maybe I’m wrong and it will stall or something, but it has been almost a decade already and there have been steady improvements throughout. I plan to switch to it as soon as I can get it working. It is still a bit rough getting a proper multi-drive encrypted system booting since it is still early days of mainline support and disros don’t have very good support for it yet.




  • As a general rule, the latest one. As much as it can be hard to see, life on average has been improving. Why would I want to go back in time where medicine was worse? Or we were covering everything with asbestos, or whatever was going on at that time. The only metric that I can think of that has been getting continually worse is the climate situation. Humans are pretty awesome though and I expect that we will be able to mitigate the worst parts for us. Note: That doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t be actively trying to stop it.







  • The Donbass portion of the Russo-Ukrainian war had a fewer belligerents, a lot lower population density, and was fought between conventional combatants. It was also over 6 years.

    The Israel-Hamas war has more belligerents, over 50x population density, is fought between a conventional army and an insurgency who has specifically said that safety of the population isn’t their problem, and is being run a lot faster than 6 years. Reported death rates have already slowed down a lot.

    Also according to the UN: https://press.un.org/en/2022/sc14904.doc.htm 90% of war time casualties are civilians. The estimated 13k civilians killed in Gaza are weighed against an estimated 7k Hamas killed. That gives about a 2:1 ratio, much better than the global average.

    War is always disgusting.