On Sat, 26 Sep 2015, Anton Aylward wrote:
OK, so it wasn't/isn't totally bug free. But it completed quickly compared to BtrFS. It's proven remarkably reliable.
If you've read brooks, you'll will be familiar with what he termed "The Second System Effect".
I only read an overview of that book recently. Pretty old book.
This abstract puts it very well:
http://www.the-wabe.com/notebook/second-system.html
The adjectives and hyperlinks) here are well chosen. http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html I particularly like "feature-laden monstrosity". That seems a good description of BtrFS.
I'm not sure, I don't know enough of systems or system design (from experience, I guess) to be able to tell if this is really true. If you hold back at first, you will do too much after, this is pretty much a truth. People always end up at the other extreme first, instead of ending up in the middle. First they are too frugal. Then, inevitably, they spend too much. Only after a while do they find the middle. Call it the pendulum effect. For example, if people first refuse to help you, then after they start being way too helpful. And then they complain about you complaining about that. It takes a while for them to act normal (or natural). We can easily see that BTRFS is at the "way too much" extreme though. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org