Episode 82 - Journaling is Not So Funny Now!

[Fab]

This week, we interview Matt Lee from the FSF, talk about Dvorak and Linux, how the French police saved millions with Open Source, CC Zero and Ted Ts’o thoughts on Ext4 data loss.

http://linuxoutlaws.com/podcast/82
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[mynameis]

DLing now.............. first.

[Fab]

Enjoy!

[RogueSpear]

"A Metric Buttload" would have also been a good title for the episode

[ideasman42]

Hey there in the interview you mention YoFrankie - Just finished the competition which adds 3 new levels (all creative commons attribution)
http://www.yofrankie.org/competition-winners-announced/

These levels are now in the svn repo and will be available for YoFrankie 1.1

[Raumkraut]

The main bug with ext4, as I understood it, was not that files weren't getting updated, but that some were being truncated to zero size when a system crashed. Which is a MAJOR fail, if the filesystem was indeed responsible.
And while you're moaning about the Windows registry, don't forget that Gnome has also adopted a similar technology in GConf:

Essentially GConf provides a preferences database, which is like a simple filesystem.

sound familiar? Not so smug now are you, Gnometards?


Oh, and NRK is pronounced in Norwegian as "enn air kaw", so it actually sounds more like "inner core".

[mjjzf]

Registry is not bad; stupid implementation is bad.

[RogueSpear]

I'm sorry but after reading the link to Gconf I can say that it doesn't even remotely approach the registry in Windows. I could go on about the technical failings of the registry and all of the security/performance/stability issues. Windows has many technical failures, some would argue the entire thing is a failure, but I don't think there is any one piece of the Windows system that represents criminal negligence quite like the registry.

[Dan]

Hey there in the interview you mention YoFrankie - Just finished the competition which adds 3 new levels (all creative commons attribution)
http://www.yofrankie.org/competition-winners-announced/

These levels are now in the svn repo and will be available for YoFrankie 1.1

Wow great news thanks, I still haven't tried YoFrankie properly I'm ashamed to say but I did download it ages ago. I'll attempt to rectify this terrible mistake forthwith. Those screenshots look great I must say

Thanks to everyone for listening and commenting too btw

[NYbill]

dan joked- the only person that can fix EXT4 is Hans Reiser. it will be a Silence of the lambs moment. LOL!! the rush of images that put in my head. Hans strapped to a moving dolly with the hockey mask on.

The main bug with ext4, as I understood it, was not that files weren't getting updated, but that some were being truncated to zero size when a system crashed.

i wonder if ZFS does this as well? i had zero byte file problems with my Mythbox. it happened after i added a 2nd capture card. now i wonder if one or both of the capture cards started closing the files wrong.