So that's at least two linux filesystem creators who have gone off the rails; should we consider it a potential diagnostic symptom?
(For anyone not familiar with the text, Goodstein's treatment of the subject opens with "Ludwig Boltzman, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.")
Designing software for a printer means being a very aggressive user of a printer. There's no way to unit test this stuff. You just have to print the damn thing and then inspect the physical artifact.
"If it looks good, it is good." was a mantra
Now, when they downsized and reorganized and put me on the windows driver team, I left the company within a week.
So the reasonable man uses Ext4 I guess.
its quite funny to me that ext4 very much mirrors him in that regard. its underpinning damn well everything, but you'd never know about it because it works so well.
This is less true when T'so asks questions at conferences, of course.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/02/rust_for_linux_mainta...
And the unreasonable one writes his own Unix clone... and ends up putting several multi-million-dollar companies out of business.
I know which I admire more, TBH.
But I use ext4, yeah.