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reading files, deleting files, I can go on
@oleksandr @ptesarik @vbabka I think you know czech enough to understand "Proč fs?"
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@ptesarik @vbabka There are so many filesystems to delete.
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@hleithner @kernellogger It may be hard to do right, but not doing it at all is more like "I did not subscribe to that" because people are more attracted to coding. I found a bit of delight writing release notes, changelogs or simply updating documentation. Not only to keep myself informed but it comes handy when people ask and there's also a page to link to.
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@kernellogger Not giving it new names is right, it really makes a lot of things hard for the integration with tools (installers, partition mangers and such). There are still the internal format versions which are not compatible.
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@vitaut I first read it as “you’ll work around engineering standard commitee members”

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Source of the learning data of an LLM can be guessed from the insults it gives me when I'm trying to understand ARM assembly:

>>> what does the instruction cbz mean in plain words?

Comment: I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because [so] is not a code translation service.

Answer: `cbz` (Compare and Branch on Zero) means branch to label if X1=0.
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@lkundrak @oleksandr Streets named after battles, Bitva u Zborova as I remember it. Zborovská in Prague in particular.
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@thephd Operator _Array_size, macro is optional
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@thephd good to see a survey but I guess I'll be using ARRAY_SIZE forever. And it was not in the list while the absolutely not awkward to type "nelemsof" had two variants.
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@lkundrak Marketing is superstitious, not that hard to actually convince them. Like SLES skipped version 13 (unlucky at one part of the globe), 14 (containing 4, unlucky for another part of the globe). Random search for meaning of 8: https://www.numerology.com/articles/about-numerology/single-digit-number-8-meaning/ "Of all the numbers in Numerology, the number 8 is the achiever and measures life by the goals it reaches. [...]"
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@ljs @pony There are at least two in development, pijul and jj (jujutsu). Neither has convinced me that it's better than git /for what I need/, but you can't complain nothing is happening in VCS space. Also there's fossil (by sqlite gang), I once tried to import linux kernel sources to it and gave up after a few hours the repo.db had like 1G and progress 10%. Db stored on tmpfs for speed.

If you're a database engine developer, every problem can be solved by database. Still somehow "Ad-hoc pile-of-files key/value database" beats it.
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@Aissen @jarkko I don't know, my guess that it could be sold as "best compiler" for ia64 in it's prime years. One comment at https://lwn.net/Articles/320795/ confirms that, mentioning SGI, and there are more insightful comments.
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@DrHyde @ludicity @banana I have "git commit -save" in my typing muscle memory, where 'e' opens the editor, and 'v' also shows the diff which is quite convenient.
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@Aissen @jarkko Intel C compiler support was removed in 6.3, proably broken for years too but that's another compiler supported besides GCC and maybe before LLVM. From the toolchain I think the GNU ld was always needed, e.g. for arch/x86/boot/setup.ld
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A document I compiled from feedback and community experience where things can go bad, not counting filesystem bugs: https://btrfs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Hardware.html

There's a ZDnet article from 2010 "The universe hates your data" (https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-universe-hates-your-data/). There's only that much a filesystem can do.

Sometims I feel that btrfs is a decent faulty hardware detector that also happens to be a filesystem.
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@karl @kernellogger Well, what else than "we disagree with the your assesment of btrfs but we understand it's been integral part of bcachefs' marketing" can we say. I've been trying to fix btrfs reputation for years, it has improved but there will be always people with problems and quick to blame the filesystem. I'm always pleased when I read on reddit or HN people with their experience of saved data, early detected HW problems or otherwise uninteresting daily usage.
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@vbabka On one hand all the _ext things make people happy because getting the extension interface is the last thing they need before never having to talk to the community again.

On the other hand, you can always reject a report because "oh you're using your own _ext code". And it won't be entirely wrong.

The extensions can of course spark interest in experimenting in some difficult areas, like the scheduler. The best outcome is to incorporate the good things back, if that happens. If. IF.
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