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Cake day: December 21st, 2023

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  • Wait til your table with all the checksums gets messed up on an “older” btrfs install. Happened to me on a VM because I didn’t know copy-on-write should be disabled for large frequently partially updated files. It also slowed that VMs IO down a lot.

    Like most file systems, BTRFS is great if you know the edge cases. I recently moved to ZFS on my new work system, which has been a great change in terms of in-line snapshots and the like.

    If EXT4 meets your needs, that’s awesome. If you understand how to use a different FS well or are willing to learn (and risk), I would also encourage other options as well.
















  • In short, I don’t write formal documents often in my role as a software engineer.

    There are any number of ways that an opt-out message could be too ambiguous to be legally interpreted. For example, if you just send the message saying “no thanks, I don’t want to use arbitration”, but forget to identify yourself in a way that is meaningful to the other party, it may not hold up in any proceedings.

    For example, either your legal name or username may be required, or both, depending on whether you need to prove you are/were a user at the time of opt-out.

    Specifying the confirmation is helpful as well in a normal document that someone reads.

    Several other companies have made opt outs that you have to send paper mail for as a way to raise the barrier of rejection.

    People are lazy. I am lazy. I asked a resource to do it for me and shared the results to help others like me. This helps reduce the barrier to people who would like to opt out but can’t be bothered to figure out how to write that email.