by tytso | Jan 20, 2010 | Computers, Copyright
I recently came across the Transitive Grace Period Public License (alternate link) by Zooko Wilcox-O’Hearn. I fonud it interesting because it’s very similar — almost identical — to something I had first starting floating about ten years ago. ... by tytso | Jan 12, 2010 | Computers, Politics
Although I obviously had nothing to do with Google’s decision vis-a-vis China, having only started working there for a week, I was definitely glad to see it and it made me proud to be able to say that I work there. Kudos to Google’s management team for... by tytso | Jul 18, 2009 | Copyright, Gadgets
Amazon can reach in and randomly destroy the books on your Kindle remotely over Whispernet, without asking your permission first. Well, technically, thanks to the terms and conditions that you have to agree to before you buy the Kindle, you gave them permission in... by tytso | Mar 15, 2009 | Filesystems, Linux
After reading the comments on my earlier post, Delayed allocation and the zero-length file problem as well as some of the comments on the Slashdot story as well as the Ubuntu bug, it’s become very clear to me that there are a lot of myths and misplaced concerns... by tytso | Mar 12, 2009 | Filesystems, Linux
A recent Ubuntu bug has gotten slashdotted, and has started raising a lot of questions about the safety of using ext4. I’ve actually been meaning to blog about this for a week or so, but between a bout of the stomach flu and a huge todo list at work, I simply... by tytso | Mar 1, 2009 | Filesystems, Linux, SSD
On occasion, you will see the advice that the ext3 file system is not suitable for Solid State Disks (SSD’s) due to the extra writes caused by journaling — and so Linux users using SSD’s should use ext2 instead. However, is this folk wisdom actually... by tytso | Feb 26, 2009 | Cooking, Filesystems, Gadgets, Linux, OSS
Last night I managed to finish up a rather satisfying improvement to ext4’s inode and block allocators. The ext4’s original allocator was actually a bit more simple-minded than ext3’s, in that it didn’t implement the Orlov algorithm to spread... by tytso | Feb 25, 2009 | Linux, OSS
I came across the following from the ext3-users mailing list. The poor user was stuck on a never-updated RHEL 3 production server and running into kernel panic problems. He was advised to try updating to the latest kernel rpm from Red Hat, but he didn’t feel he... by tytso | Feb 23, 2009 | git, SCM
Last week, Scott James Remnant posted a series of “Git Sucks” on his blog, starting with this one here, with follow up entries here and here. His problem? To quote Scott, “I want to put a branch I have somewhere so somebody else can get it. That’s... by tytso | Feb 22, 2009 | Filesystems, Linux, SSD
In one of the comments to my last blog entry, an anonymous commenter writes: You seem to be taking a different perspective to linus on the “adapting to the the disk technology” front (Linus seems to against having to have the OS know about disk boundaries and having...
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