[vishnu]

So okay, first of all, I credit Kirk McKusick, and Eric Allman, and Bill Joy, and all those guys for everything they've all done for free software, but really, none of those guys are anywhere near the tip of the spear anymore. ZFS (and EXT4) are actively maintained by a whole bunch of guys who know far more about filesystems than I could ever hope to conceive. Perhaps as some members here know, I'm not a systems programmer, I'm an end user programmer, I've haven't written a single line of code that accesses hardware in the last 30 years. Code in Motif? Yes definitely. Xt? Yes that too. X11? Painful but sort of. Anything beyond that? I'm a basket case. So I give a great deal of thanks to the people who understand that kind of shit, because just thinking about it makes my brain melt...