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Firefox is faster than Chrome with their synthetic benchmarks.
Okay and? Why does userspace care about this? Should Emacs not run on btrfs?
No, that's the argument this article is supposedly making. But it's not actually making it. That's the problem. Filesystems are an abstraction and I expected to see some problems regarding a leaky abstraction or something, but the article doesn't mention anything like that.
It mentions that dealing with hard disks is hard (which I believe, since they are flaky hardware). But dropbox didn't say "we won't be supporting this kind of hard disk/hard disk controller", but "we won't be supporting these filesystems". Where's the proof that those filesystems have problems that ext4 doesn't have?
I guess it's a matter of choice for people who still use Firefox.
From reading the first paragraph it sounds like the author will explain to great lengths why Dropbox had it hard to support filesystems other than ext4.
But then you read the article and it goes to explain how dealing with files is hard and sometimes data corruption and loss occurs (fair enough), but nothing filesystem specific that could explain why ext4 is superior (or special) and had to be chosen.
So it reads kind of like an excuse for Dropbox, only that it isn't.
Why is this comment flagged but can be replied to and it's not hidden from view?
Disconnected, okay. Lose your cart... why? Cookies and sessions existed back then.
>Then set up a MongoDB database to automatically generate Apple store accounts to create game accounts,
Anybody without a technical background could read this and think that MongoDB is some kind of Apple accounts generator software.