Lennart Poettering Talks Up His New Linux Vision That Involves Btrfs

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Lennart Poettering Talks Up His New Linux Vision That Involves Btrfs

Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame has published a lengthy blog post that shares his vision for how he wishes to change how Linux software systems are put together to address a wide variety of issues. The Btrfs file-system and systemd play big roles with his new vision...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc3NzU

[halfmanhalfamazing]

In first!

Lennart Poettering threads are always interesting spectacles to behold...........

[Akdor 1154]

Phoronix: Lennart Poettering Talks Up His New Linux Vision That Involves Btrfs

Lennart Poettering of systemd and PulseAudio fame has published a lengthy blog post that shares his vision for how he wishes to change how Linux software systems are put together to address a wide variety of issues. The Btrfs file-system and systemd play big roles with his new vision...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTc3NzU

Why doesn't Lennart just build his own distro? It's quite a serious question and would resolve a lot of the bad blood around his work being not-so-warmly-received by users of current distros.

[Awesomeness]

OMG, a proposal for higher-level Linux features that finally involves a modern file system.
If there is one thing I dislike about Linux (having used BeOS way back, btw), it is that while Linux has many fancy file systems, the feature set is mostly unused by higher-level tools as they are apparently designed to run on file systems from the 1980s.

BeOS implemented something similar to what many people today know as Spotlight, Baloo, etc. directly on the file system: No extra caches or indexes. Under BeOS it way easy to tell an individual file that a particular app has to open it ? it was saved as extended attribute.

If that proposal would come true, finally a new base line for file systems under Linux would be set and then such BeOS-ish features get implemented as well.

[justmy2cents]

i'm guessing anti lennart comitee now hates btrfs and we're at brink of comment flood where ppl ask "why does btrfs needs to be in kernel?". my chips is ready

Lennart Poettering threads are always interesting spectacles to behold...........

ohhh, dear... this image is so awesome, maybe michael should use this to tag lennart topics.

[Awesomeness]

Why doesn't Lennart just build his own distro? It's quite a serious question and would resolve a lot of the bad blood around his work being not-so-warmly-received by users of current distros.

You apparently don't know that he works for Red Hat and therefore already builds his own distro.
Nobody from Debian, Arch, Mageia, etc. has ever been forced to accept code from Red Hat. It's just that those other distributors would then have to work on such technology on their own instead of freeloading Red Hat code which is far more work and probably less fun than flaming on mailing lists.

[justmy2cents]

You apparently don't know that he works for Red Hat and therefore already builds his own distro.
Nobody from Debian, Arch, Mageia, etc. has ever been forced to accept code from Red Hat. It's just that those other distributors would then have to work on such technology on their own instead of freeloading Red Hat code which is far more work and probably less fun than flaming on mailing lists.

Debian does not contribute? Debian has shitload of contributors that do pretty awesome work. you probably mean Canonical?

[johnc]

inb4 btrfs becomes the required linux filesystem.

want dbus? you need btrfs!

[Awesomeness]

Debian does not contribute? Debian has shitload of contributors that do pretty awesome work. you probably mean Canonical?

No, I meant Debian. Despite all the flaming during the systemd migration debate, NOBODY stood up and announced an alternative project, not even a prototype. Debian was discussing whether to migrate to Red Hat technology (systemd) or to Canonical technology (upstart).

The Gentoo devs are not afraid to tackle such tasks (hence OpenRC) but Debian is just a huge crowd of crybabies.

[liam]

Haven't read the whole post yet but did a search for "atomic" and didn't get the hit I was looking for.

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Atomic_Cloud_Image

Amazed he's not aware of Colin's work in this area. This too is part of f.N, and is going to represent a massive leap forward in linux stability/usability.