336: Linus' Filesystem Fluster

Linus Torvalds says don't use ZFS, but we think he got a few of the facts wrong. Jim Salter joins us to help us explain what Linus got right, and what he got wrong.

Plus some really handy Linux picks, some community news, and a live broadcast from Seattle's Snowpocalypse!

Special Guest: Jim Salter.

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Links:

• Windows 7 support ended on January 14, 2020
  
• Chris Snowed in
  
• WSDOT Traffic on Twitter: "Five cars and a semi on this collision SB I-5 north of SR 530. Back up with only one lane going through.
  
• Automotive Grade Linux Has Large Presence At CES 2020
  
• Keep the conversation going join us on Telegram Jupiterbroadcasting.com/telegram
  
• LFNW CFP closes Wednesday 1/15!
  
• Texas Linux Fest CFP closes Saturday 1/18!
  
• Home Assistant Podcast
  
• Linus Torvalds says “Don’t use ZFS”—but doesn’t seem to understand it | Ars Technica
  
• Linus Torvalds on ZFS
  
• A Quick Look At EXT4 vs. ZFS Performance On Ubuntu 19.10 With An NVMe SSD
  
• ZFS Isn’t the Only Option
  
• XFS Copy-On-Write
  
• New tricks for XFS
  
• Contributors to zfsonlinux/zfs
  
• OpenZFS leadership meetings and other videos
  
• OpenZFS 2.0 Out In 2020 With Unified Linux/FreeBSD Support, OpenZFS 3.0 With macOS - Phoronix
  
• bandwhich: Terminal bandwidth utilization tool (formerly known as “what”)
  
• Nethogs: a small ‘net top’ tool.
  
• iftop: display bandwidth usage on an interface
  
• s-tui: Terminal-based CPU stress and monitoring utility
  
• Firefox Send CLI
  
• age: A simple, modern and secure encryption tool with small explicit keys, no config options, and UNIX-style composability.