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Comment: Re:They Why ZFS? (Score 1) 235

by rodgerd (#34315200) Attached to: Running ZFS Natively On Linux Slower Than Btrfs

LARC is a huge benefit in the Solaris world, where the comparison is UFS. Solaris UFS is unbelievably primitive, and the reason why job 1 in many SOlaris shops is to buy a third-party filesytem for any serious work.

In the Linux world, where aggressive use of caching has been standard for over a decade it compares a lot less favourably.

That said, btrfs management is a shit sandwich. ZFS's management tools actually let you, you know, use the advertised features of the filesystem.

Comment: Re:LILO is immune to this. (Score 3, Insightful) 429

by rodgerd (#33407762) Attached to: Some Windows Apps Make GRUB 2 Unbootable

I failed to see what the big benefit of GRUB was in the first place. It adds a huge amount of complexity for standard Intel boxes, minimal benefits, and when it was first jammed into distros, regressed all sorts of use cases (such as booting from broken software RAIDs).

Much like the Linux audio subsystems, it's a tail of throwing out something that works for 90% of users, replacing it with something of dubious virtue, and then declaring the remaining problems too hard to solve and moving on to the Next Big Thing (GRUB 2 in this case), while giving you a pile of new and insane problems to deal with.

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -- H.L. Mencken, on Shakespeare

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