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Here's a neat analysis of a subtle OpenZFS bug by @robnRob 馃挌.

despairlabs.com/blog/posts/202

I love reading thoughtful analyses of bugs and the factors that produced them. Nowadays I usually arrive somewhat resigned, and expecting a "zeroth order" C bug -- something like bad pointering or failure to initialize a variable.

This is more of a "second order" C bug, and the author goes through the potential tradeoffs and rightfully points out that the answer is not "git gud." I'll put my thoughts on the bug in a reply so as not to spoil it for you.

Anyway, it's a good short read.

An (almost) catastrophic OpenZFS bug and the humans that made it (and Rust is here too)

A couple of weeks ago I fixed a nasty bug in this function in OpenZFS:

despairlabs.com 路 despair labs

Link author: Rob 馃挌@robn@social.lol

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