> I met Linus at the '94 Boston USENIX and asked about NFS file caching. He told me he didn't care about NFS, and didn't think it would ever get fixed. The interaction was unpleasant and left a very bad taste in my mouth.
Linus has always been blunt about which things he cares about and which things he doesn't and I can certainly see him not caring about NFS. I'm sure he would say it really has no business being in the kernel in the first place, but ultimately I assume he's fine with it as long as that part of the tree is somebody else's responsibility and it doesn't interfere with the rest of the kernel. That's really how Linux kernel development works: people work on what they care about and Linus' only real job for decades now is to veto the bad stuff.
I'd love to be using FreeBSD more, but I have to stick with Linux because things like docker, wireguard, and hardware support always hit Linux first and I'm more of an end-user than a hacker.
> I'm sure he would say it really has no business being in the kernel in the first place,
... Actually, why is it in-kernel? Just performance reasons?
> things like docker, wireguard, and hardware support always hit Linux first
FWIW, they do eventually get there; we should see docker on runj some time in the medium future, wireguard works fine in userspace and will be in the kernel soon, and hardware support is hit-or-miss but it's okay in my experience (although obviously that's very variable by person/machine).
Linus has always been blunt about which things he cares about and which things he doesn't and I can certainly see him not caring about NFS. I'm sure he would say it really has no business being in the kernel in the first place, but ultimately I assume he's fine with it as long as that part of the tree is somebody else's responsibility and it doesn't interfere with the rest of the kernel. That's really how Linux kernel development works: people work on what they care about and Linus' only real job for decades now is to veto the bad stuff.
I'd love to be using FreeBSD more, but I have to stick with Linux because things like docker, wireguard, and hardware support always hit Linux first and I'm more of an end-user than a hacker.