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vrnvu 2 days ago

I'd like to highlight this:

>NFS with Kerberos

secure, simple, battle tested. no crazy architecture

works so well a bug showed up in the kernel :-)

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eqvinox a day ago | parent | next [-]

> works so well a bug showed up in the kernel :-)

What exactly are you trying to highlight here? Most code has bugs. This one is someone forgetting to stick to actual behavior described in 1997, it's a mistake, mistakes happen. Which one of "secure", "simple", "battle tested" and "no crazy architecture" do you think this disproves?

Or do you think CIFS or Ceph have no bugs?

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gyesxnuibh a day ago | parent [-]

I think they're saying typically the kernel one of the last places you'd expect the bug, so it shows that it is battle tested?

I don't think they're being snarky.

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eqvinox a day ago | parent [-]

I didn't really read it as snarky, I just straight up don't understand what they mean (and maybe why that smiley is there?)

	▲	vrnvu a day ago \| parent [-]
		By "no crazy architecture" I meant it avoids the modern trend of building monstrous data platforms on top of data meshes, event buses, and layers of cloud abstractions. The kind I sometimes see, hence the smiley :-)

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burnt-resistor a day ago | parent | prev [-]

The Linux kernel needs to adopt better testing methodologies because they're almost entirely reliant on meatcloud CI than provably-correct code with invariant contracts.