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orib.dev
Personal blog · orib.dev · on HN as ori_bsystemsprogramming
orib.dev is a personal blog at orib.dev about systems and programming. Since 2020, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 39 times, most often “Gefs: A good enough filesystem for Plan 9”. The last post was in 2024, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (8) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link orib.dev pages on geFS, a crash-safe snapshotting file system, and on Plan 9 topics such as security and git-style tooling. The comments are bare links or quotes, with no judgment of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 8 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Gefs: A good enough filesystem for Plan 97 people · 8 mentions · first linked 2023-04-28
- Gefs: A good enough file system [pdf]5 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2023-05-01
- Git/serve: A Git server for Plan 93 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2020-09-08
- Simplicity and Ecosystems2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-08
- 9front Hackathon 12 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-09-28
- Git9 is self hosted now: Hosting Git on Plan 92 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-26
- The Mislabeled Brick of Utopia2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2026-05-21
- Comments on Comments2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-09-09
What Hacker News says?
I am currently working on helping small companies solve technical problems, build a strong technical culture, and scale their engineering orgs. Both hands on code and leadership, as needed. For a summary, https://orib.dev/consulting.html I'm just starting out with this, but it's looking promising.
Comment linking /consulting.html
on “Ask HN: How many of you are self employed?”Submitted LLMs Are Not Fun as a story · 158 points
HN discussionYou sound incredibly entitled. "Give me free things done to my specs, or Microsoft won. No, of course you don't deserve a salary for that." > Are you writing your own OS, prog-lang and compiler from scratch too? Yes -- I'm an OpenBSD and 9front committer, and I have built my own language and compiler. My website -- https://orib.dev -- runs code I can commit to all the way down to the hardware. But that's neither her…
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on “I found a one-char typo in the docs for Python's typing_extensions library”Submitted Simplicity and Ecosystems as a story · 42 points
HN discussionUnrelated but there is another older but still niche operating system with a new advanced file system: https://orib.dev/gefs.html
Comment linking /gefs.html
on “RedoxFS is the default filesystem of Redox OS, inspired by ZFS”Submitted Git/serve: A Git server for Plan 9 as a story · 10 points
HN discussion> Porting a mainstream browser to Plan 9 is about 50 times more labor than has ever been put into Plan 9 even when Bell Labs was footing the bill https://orib.dev/interject.html
Comment linking /interject.html
on “Introduction to Plan 9”Submitted Git/serve: A Git server for Plan 9 as a story · 7 points
HN discussionAlready done. https://orib.dev/9hack1.html
Comment linking /9hack1.html
on “Security in Plan 9 (2002)”Submitted Gefs: A good enough filesystem for Plan 9 as a story · 6 points
HN discussionAnd it's not even necessary -- the git data model is simple. It's simple enough that you can generate valid commits in about a page lines of python, with no libraries. The rest is just packing files for efficiency, and finding the difference between hash lists for syncing and pulling. The command line interface to git is insanely complicated, confusing, and unnecessarily difficult to use, but this isn't a result of…
Comment linking /ugit.py
on “Picturing Git: Conceptions and Misconceptions”Submitted GEFS – new file system built for Plan 9 as a story · 4 points
HN discussion> […] but I also want to explore what adding trim-style feedback to a generic RAID layer may look like […] TRIM commands sent to the block layer would probably help with SSD/NVMe wear leveling, as well as thin-provisioning in virtualized environments. And the lack of RAID is not a critique: if you're mostly interested in the file system layer that's fine, and a useful area to solve problems in. My comment was more t…
Comment linking /gefs.pdf
on “GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview”Submitted Why Self-Host 9front as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFrom https://orib.dev/gefs.pdf - > While snapshot consistency is useful to keep data consistent, disks often fail over time. In order to detect corruption, block pointers contain a hash of the data that they point at. If corrupted data is returned by the underlying storage medium, this is detected via block hashes. And if a programmer error causes the file system to write garbage to disk, this can often be caught ea…
Comment linking /gefs.pdf
on “GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview”Submitted Gefs as a story · 3 points
HN discussionGEFS: A Good Enough File System https://orib.dev/gefs.pdf
Comment linking /gefs.pdf
on “GEFS on OpenBSD: A Early Preview”Submitted Baklava Code as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThere is also gefs https://orib.dev/gefs.pdf with the other thinking about porting it to OpenBSD.
Comment linking /gefs.pdf
on “OpenBSD 7.4 Released”Submitted Gefs: A good enough filesystem for Plan 9 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionThis release is the first with a new "crash-safe, corruption-detecting, simple, and fast snapshotting filesystem": geFS. https://orib.dev/gefs.html
Comment linking /gefs.html
on “9FRONT (Plan 9) "This Time Definitely" Released”Submitted Bloat Hurts Development Speed as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSEEKING WORK | New York, NY | Local or Remote | ~15 years experience Contract, Consulting, Hands on Coding orHelping Teams Execute Hi, I'm Ori. I'm an Ex-Google, Ex-Meta, 2x startup veteran. I love working on hard distributed systems problems, low level systems code, big data problems. I also love working with small companies to make their team punch well above their weight through mentorship, training, team buildin…
Comment linking /resume.pdf
on “Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)”Submitted The Mislabeled Brick of Utopia as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://orib.dev/nexus.html
Comment linking /nexus.html
on “Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results”Submitted Flags and Usability as a story · 2 points
HN discussionA similar thing exists for Plan 9: https://orib.dev/git9.html
Comment linking /git9.html
on “GitMounter: A FUSE filesystem for Git repositories”Submitted Gefs [the good enough file system] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 9front Hackathon 1 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Comments on Comments as a story · 2 points
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