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A Higgs-Bugson in the Linux Kernel

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226 points Ne02ptzero | 1 comments | 02 Jul 25 18:34 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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alexpotato ◴[03 Jul 25 12:58 UTC] No.44454552[source]▶
Regarding NFS, I've always loved this quote from the CTO at a hedge fund I once worked at:

"NFS is lot like heroin:

at first, it seems amazing.

But then it ruins your life"

(This is a place that did almost EVERYTHING via NFS including different applications communicating via shared files on NFS mounts. It also had the weird setup of using BOTH Linux AND Windows permissions on NFS mounts shared between user desktops [windows] an servers [linux])

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stavros ◴[03 Jul 25 13:34 UTC] No.44454903[source]▶
The problem I have with reviews like these is that they're expressed in absolute terms. Yes, NFS might ruin my life, but if it ruins my life less than every other alternative, it's still a win.
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1. burnt-resistor ◴[03 Jul 25 20:30 UTC] No.44458903[source]▶
The devil is in the details, the devil you know is preferable, and there's yet no perfectly angelic systems or code (because of the widespread allergy to formal methods and job security).. which will lead to less evil, but still imperfect systems.