the title of the talk is "Why (and how) we’re migrating many of our servers from Linux to the BSDs"
and that should be the title of this post too.
I like that the blog post shares the slides, not just the video.
I wish he could write up a bit about XFS failure he had. Im using it from many many years and there is no issues at all.
I had one a few years back where we ran out of inodes on a Jenkins machine on CentOS 7 and it crashed and couldn’t remount the filesystem. I had to restore a backup which was time consuming on a 4TB volume with crazy amounts of files.
Used it since the late 90s on IRIX, think there were a few issues early on with the endian swap, but no issues for the best part of twenty years for me!
> “If nothing is working, what am I paying you for? If everything’s working, what am I paying you for?”
Bloke is not acquainted with Keynesian economics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OhIdDNtSv0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NO_tTnpof_o
All a man needs is food in his stomach and a place to rest at the end of the day. Everything else is vanity
What proportion of global GDP is dedicated to fulfilling our basic material needs?
It is mostly unnecessary. Inspite of the huge productivity gains made since the seventies, the current generation of young Americans are poorer than their parents and grandparents were at their age.
So what does all the IT optimization bring? Just more wealth for the owners and redundancies for their employees, including Joe Bloggs here.
It is time people in IT got to understand this. In the long term their activities are not going to improve their wealth. They are one of the few professions whose job is to optimize themselves out of a living, unless they own the means of the production their are optimizing, which they don't.
It is their employers that do.