Rampant Layering Syndrome

“Reports of my demise have been greatly exaggerated. I am,
however, still keeping my blogging to a minimum for various
reasons. (An RSI flare-up, a new baby, a big project at work,
yada.) But I thought I’d pop by to let people know I’m still alive,
and I do still plan on posting to FatBits.

“I don’t have a big post today, but I do have a nice link. It’s
another post from a ZFS developer’s blog. This time, it’s Jeff
Bonwick responding to Andrew Morton’s claim that ZFS is a ‘rampant
layering violation’ because it cuts across the traditionally
separate worlds of the filesystem, volume manager, and RAID
controller…”

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