Quotes of the week

"The racer-boys who run $FASTEST_DISTRO_OF_THE_MONTH and infest racer-boy tech forums always tune atime for maximum warp speed. One of them will make the connection between atime updates and lazytime and so turn on lazytime. They will then make a forum post saying how their bonnie++ test runs 3.4% faster but only when they stand on their head, go cross-eyed and stick their tongue out and so everyone should do that it because it's Clearly Better.

Me Too posts will rapidly spread across racer forums around the world and Google will then start returning them as the first hits when someone searches for lazytime. We'll see a cargo cult of users doing headstands and using "-o noatime,nodiratime,lazytime" because that's what the first guy did and everyone who has tried it since has agreed that it was Clearly Better.

In ten years time we'll still be telling people that bonnie++ numbers are meaningless, nodiratime is redundant when you specific noatime, that both are redundant when you specific lazytime and that standing on your head making faces just makes you look like an idiot and gives you a headache.

Meanwhile Eric will be sitting in the corner muttering quietly to himself about how there *still* isn't a Sed For Google API that would let him revise history to stop people finding old posts about the performance benefits of standing on your head, making faces and using noatime,nodiratime,lazytime..."