“The terms ‘allowlist’ and ‘blocklist’ describe their purpose, while the other words use metaphors to describe their purpose,” reads a change description on the source code for Android — from over a year ago. 9to5Mac calls it “a shortened version of Google’s (internal-only) explanation” for terminology changes which are now becoming more widespread. And Thursday GitHub’s CEO said they were also…
Tag: OpenZFS
What Linus Torvalds Gets Wrong About ZFS
Ars Technica recently ran a rebuttal by author, podcaster, coder, and “mercenary sysadmin” Jim Salter to some comments Linus Torvalds made last week about ZFS. While its reasonable for Torvalds to oppose integrating the CDDL-licensed ZFS into the kernel, Salter argues, he believes Torvalds’ characterization of the filesystem was “inaccurate and damaging.” Torvalds dips into his own impressions of ZFS itself,…
Linus Torvalds: Avoid Oracle’s ZFS Kernel Code Until ‘Litigious’ Larry Signs Off
“Linux kernel head Linus Torvalds has warned engineers against adding a module for the ZFS filesystem that was designed by Sun Microsystems — and now owned by Oracle — due to licensing issues,” reports ZDNet: As reported by Phoronix, Torvalds has warned kernel developers against using ZFS on Linux, an implementation of OpenZFS, and refuses to merge any ZFS code until…