Quotes of the week [LWN.net]

I like the %p thingy - it's neat and is an overall improvement. If it dies I shall stick another pin in my Ingo doll.

-- Andrew Morton (who also provided a picture of said doll)

HAMMER2 implements a root directory which is ABOVE the nominal mount point for the filesystem. That is, the nominal mount point is typically a file inside this directory instead of the directory itself.

This feature can be replicated for any subdirectory, where the parent holds multiple snapshots of said directory. There is no global snapshot table per-say.

This makes it possible to trivially construct and maintain multiple mirroring domains within any subdirectory structure. For example you can construct a HAMMER2 filesystem which holds multiple roots and then mount the desired one based on a boot menu item, and you can work within these roots as if they were the root of the whole filesystem (even though they are not).

-- Matthew Dillon launches another new filesystem

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Posted May 19, 2011 16:16 UTC (Thu) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]

I once owned a bull terrier (may she rest in peace). Those dogs are really tough, and I can imaging that that one continued to attack the porcupine after being zapped with all those needles. Probably why it got so many of them.

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Posted May 20, 2011 13:35 UTC (Fri) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link]

Ah, that's the result of a bitbull attacking a porcupine. I couldn't work out what strange creature/art/photoshopping excercise it was. It seems to show that those dogs are very stupid, or insensitive to pain, (as well as incredibly ugly).

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Posted May 20, 2011 14:01 UTC (Fri) by nevets (subscriber, #11875) [Link]

A bull terrier is not a pitbull (or bitbull ;). Although, they may have been used in pit fighting (along with many other types of dogs), but they were best at getting rid of rats. My dog was really good at digging up moles in the yard, but she was a wimp when it came to any other dog. My parents lhasa apso use to dominate her (and so did pretty much any other dog).

My dog (and the one in the picture here) looks like this:

http://www.dogsindepth.com/terrier_dog_breeds/bull_terrie...

This dog is best know for "Spuds McKenzie":

http://www.bark4beer.com/2009/10/13/budweiser-beer-dog-co...

And currently the Target dog:

http://img.buzznet.com/assets/imgx/8/4/9/3/8/8/1/orig-849...

A pit bull looks more like this:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/bellevue-pi/2010/01/27/free-spa...

Which I think is a much uglier and more aggressive dog. But beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;)

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Posted May 22, 2011 14:32 UTC (Sun) by pflugstad (subscriber, #224) [Link]

FYI, pit pull's are usually very PEOPLE friendly. And they are generally fine with other dogs as well. You see pit bull's in flyball quit a bit as they are short and fairly quick - first dog in this video is a pit bull and is part of a household of probably 8+ other dogs:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX58CEvI8uw

Lots of other dogs around during tournament - no more problems than any other breeds.

They are also usually very family friendly dogs - quite docile/lazy and very *protective* with kids. However, that trait makes them extremely aggressive with other dogs that they perceive as threats to "their" humans.

Note: yes these are generalizations. Pit bull's trained to fight are an entirely different beast (as is any animal cruel people have had a hand in raising...).

In short: while some pit bulls may be aggressive for whatever reason, don't paint the whole bread with the same brush.

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Posted May 19, 2011 21:08 UTC (Thu) by perennialmind (subscriber, #45817) [Link]

Agreed: that was a far cry from the inanimate effigy I was expecting. A textual description would have suited me just fine.

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Posted May 23, 2011 16:01 UTC (Mon) by Quazatron (guest, #4368) [Link]

I completely agree, that picture should have a [NSFW] tag.