FYI. There is an old saying in embedded circles that I revolve that evolved from Arthur C Clarke "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." Engineering version states "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice" Also I'll quote you on throwing under the bus thing :) (I actually like that justification)
On 1 December 2016 at 17:28, Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Tomasz Kusmierz <tom.kusmi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Please, I beg you add another column to man and wiki stating clearly >> how many devices every profile can withstand to loose. I frequently >> have to explain how btrfs profiles work and show quotes from this >> mailing list because "dawning-kruger effect victims" keep poping up >> with statements like "in btrfs raid10 with 8 drives you can loose 4 >> drives" ... I seriously beg you guys, my beating stick is half broken >> by now. > > You need a new stick. It's called the ad hominem attack. When stupid > people say stupid things, the dispute is not about the facts or > opinions in the argument itself, but rather the person involved. There > is the possibility this is more than stupidity, it really borders on > maliciousness. Any ethical code of conduct for a list will accept ad > hominem attacks over the willful dissemination of provably wrong > information. When stupid assholes throw users under the bus with > provably wrong (and bad) advice, it becomes something of an obligation > to resort to name calling. > > Of course, I'd also like the wiki to clearly state the only profile > that tolerates more than one device loss is raid6; and be very > explicit with the manifestly wrong terminology being used by Btrfs's > raid10 terminology. That is a fairly egregious violation of common > terminology and the trust we're supposed to be developing, both in the > usage of common terms, but also in Btrfs specifically. > > > > -- > Chris Murphy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
