I think the issue is that you knew there was a bug to be found in the write and checkpoint interactions, which then determined which workload you built.

My understanding is that this workload is very uncommon: the Tailscale blog says they used a custom unusual configuration to have many checkpoints like this. So without knowing the bug, it seems unlikely one would build this workload and then find the bug. If that makes sense.

Edit: just want to say that you being able to repro it is awesome, but that the overall claim seems a little overstated to me.

I can see how the post comes across that way. I may need to edit it to somehow be clearer about how I approached the workload development. I'll refer you to my other replies to comments for more information on my approach:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49278424 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49278521

Also appreciate the nice words at the end :) I'm feeling a bit ganged up on.