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Re:Lessons from Ancient File Systems by munchler on Monday July 29, 2024 @05:57PM (#41104177)
This is the opposite of today's "You aren't going to need it" (YAGNI). I think the best approach might be somewhere in between.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html

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Re:Lessons from Ancient File Systems by jujube3 on Monday July 29, 2024 @06:40PM (#41104435)
Yes. This would be "You ARE going to need it" (YAGNI)
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Re:Lessons from Ancient File Systems by daotoad on Monday July 29, 2024 @07:26PM (#41104681)
The hard part of applying YAGNI is figuring out which value of A is appropriate.
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Re:Lessons from Ancient File Systems by benreesman on Monday July 29, 2024 @07:28PM (#41104695)
This is like the Halting Problem for Cloud.

Well put.

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Re:Lessons from Ancient File Systems by m463 on Tuesday July 30, 2024 @06:45AM (#41107799)
thankfully there was a flexible future-proof design in place for the acronyms allowing re-use and backward-compatible upgrade.
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