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[Zan Lynx]

I'll believe it when I see it.

In my experience, getting things working is the straight forward part. Proper error handling ends up as 2/3rds...

[Zan Lynx]

Well there's Servo. Sure, it crashes a lot and is very, very buggy but it is really fast!

It's getting better all the time. But even if it...

[Zan Lynx]

Hah ha. No.

Most filesystem errors are logic errors, not coding errors. Rust is great, but if you tell it to multiply by 4 when you meant...

[Zan Lynx]

If you have the hardware around or can borrow it, it'd be cool to compare performance from now to 13 years ago.

[Zan Lynx]

Nice that you just skip over the Razer Core I mentioned, which can accelerate any laptop with Thunderbolt....

[Zan Lynx]

They're not mythical. The Apple displays with Thunderbolt have very high performance Ethernet and USB on them. The Razer Core external GPU case works...

[Zan Lynx]

If you're using Thunderbolt then you're using Intel at the moment. I don't know if AMD or others have any plans to build anything like it.

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[Zan Lynx]

I'm not stopping you. The whole thing was in response to Caligula talking about how Ryzen is overkill for NAS, and I don't agree with that. Small CPUs...

[Zan Lynx]

I've had drives fail in my btrfs array. I recovered just fine. Now, I do remember that when it failed I was up to four drives using RAID 1, so btrfs continued...

[Zan Lynx]

It might be for Node.js. It might be nifty to be able to run graphical desktop apps without a clunky browser layer. Right now those things like Atom or...

[Zan Lynx]

I'm telling you that if you hook up 4 SATA SSDs to an el cheapo small NAS box from 2012, the SATA controller does NOT have enough bandwidth to drive that...

[Zan Lynx]

Not enough PCIe lanes for things like multiple high speed SATA devices plus USB 3 plus Gbps Ethernet. 16 lanes total I think. With a bunch wasted on a...

[Zan Lynx]

My gaming laptop has an unplugged mode that limits itself to 30 fps. If I turn that off it is quite likely to hit the system power limit. It already tries...

[Zan Lynx]

Many of those little systems have serious performance issues. Hook them up with six SATA SSDs and a gigabit LAN, and they simply can't handle it.
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[Zan Lynx]

Sounds weird. I've been using BTRFS on my home server since 2012. I'm up to 30 TB of disk on six drives now using RAID10. I've replaced two drives in...

[Zan Lynx]

RAID 1 or 10 has always worked really well for me. There isn't much need for RAID 5 in my opinion. RAID 6 would be nice though, for the two drive failure...

[Zan Lynx]

A time limit based cache seems like the best plan to me. Let the size grow to whatever (stop if disk space is low of course) as long as the shaders have...

[Zan Lynx]

That's what GSync / FreeSync / Adaptive Sync is for....

[Zan Lynx]

Well yeah. He's Buzz Lightyear's enemy: Zurg. And the bad guy from the Fifth Element movie: Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg. As an archenemy, he gets arou...

[Zan Lynx]

PCIe already does support hot plugging. The problem is that it doesn't work well if you just yank it out. It's like a USB flash drive. If you yank it...