• 1 Post
  • 21 Comments
Joined 2 years ago
cake
Cake day: June 23rd, 2023

help-circle


  • That’s it.

    Sounds like a Chinese geek tried to make something useful, did a lot of dirty hacks to get it going.

    And couldn’t properly explain because his social skills and English weren’t great.

    The blobs weren’t super suspicious, just some gpld tools, basically busybox kind of stuff.

    The real problem is what he made was so fucking insanely useful and needed by everyone that the standards for software skyrocketed.

    Like you make a cure for cancer and everyone starts screaming at you because one of the side effects is temporary impotence.





  • It’s interesting, however, if you mkfs.ext4 without -E ssd, or through some weirdness in your driver chain the filsystem doesn’t know it can discard, then everything everywhere sucks for everyone, a cow fs is worse because no blocks are ever overwritten till the end, and the block map becomes a disaster while performance goes down the drain.

    Nowadays this rarely happens outside of very broken USB mass storage chips.

    This is why we used to have the fstrim command.