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Rudd-O.com
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Rudd-O.com is a personal blog at rudd-o.com about systems and politics. Since 2007, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-09-09, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Rudd-O.com mainly as a reference for ZFS versus btrfs, including a list of ZFS advantages. It is also cited on free software, copyright and Bitcoin politics.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
A shill for truth. Defiant heresy on cultural matters. Free software, voluntaryism and cypherpunk. Established 1999.
Most-linked posts?
- How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs.4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2012-08-08
- /linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-is-better-than-btrfs3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-12-21
- Richard Stallman, free software and voluntaryism: thoughts after dinner 3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2013-07-17
What Hacker News says?
It's not pretty, but you can: https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/the-shell-challen...
Comment linking /linux-and-free-software/the-shell-challenge-changing-another-process-working-directory
on “Curl author asks Microsoft to remove 'curl' and 'wget' aliases from PowerShell”Submitted How ZFS continues to be better than Btrfs. as a story · 122 points
HN discussionSo has anyone here used zfs and btrfs and would like to comment on the differences? I've been on a heavy zfs kick lately, but the performance loss is hard to stomach and the only research I found points to btrfs being faster (though of course they both take a hit). Basically the reasons I'm drawn to zfs are: - checksumming & self-healing - ergonomics & flexibility of managing pools with zfs - copy on write for cheap…
Comment linking /linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-is-better-than-btrfs
on “An Introduction to ZFS”Submitted Richard Stallman, free software and voluntaryism: thoughts after dinner as a story · 4 points
HN discussionNote that Stallman himself is quite comfortable with his notions about mandatory sharing being enforced through state violence: "Richard is against abolishing copyrights because, to his view, without copyright, enforcing copyleft would be impossible." http://rudd-o.com/monopolies-of-the-mind/thoughts-after-my-d...
Comment linking /monopolies-of-the-mind/thoughts-after-my-dinner-with-richard-stallman
on “Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software”Submitted The political castration of artificial intelligence as a story · 2 points
HN discussionMy understanding is that btrfs is still in catchup mode for the foreseeable future, but might eventually cover the distance. Has btrfs jumped ahead of zfs in ways I haven't heard about? Edit - this is my first search result: http://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-...
Comment linking /linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-is-better-than-btrfs
on “Docker 0.8: Quality, new builder features, btrfs, OSX support”Submitted Tales from responsivenessland: why Linux feels slow, and how to fix that (2007) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionZFS is also wonderfully usable. It's a delight to admin. See http://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-...
Comment linking /linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-is-better-than-btrfs
on “Bitrot and atomic COWs: Inside “next-gen” filesystems”Submitted What's the deal with "age verification" and computers? as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> I'm pretty sure that Stallman would love a post-copyright world... See http://rudd-o.com/monopolies-of-the-mind/thoughts-after-my-d... : "Richard is against abolishing copyrights because, to his view, without copyright, enforcing copyleft would be impossible."
Comment linking /monopolies-of-the-mind/thoughts-after-my-dinner-with-richard-stallman
on “Licensing in a Post Copyright World”Submitted Thunderbird for Android / K-9 Mail notifying you late (or never) when Emailed? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionBitcoin is inherently libertarian: http://rudd-o.com/archives/bitcoin-without-the-politics If all the libertarians who are into bitcoin suddenly cut down the rhetoric, you think that this will "make bitcoin legitimate technology"? What does that even mean? You mean that governments are going to suddenly be more friendly to bitcoin users? That seems like an incredibly naive belief, sorry. In general, it is disappoint…
Comment linking /archives/bitcoin-without-the-politics
on “Why Bitcoin is a significant breakthrough, but perhaps not as a currency”Submitted How to install Fedora on top of ZFS as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt definitely did. btrfs might have been ready years ago otherwise, but instead... it languishes like a sad joke in comparison to ZFS. The biggest problem btrfs has, really, is the user interface. Nothing is as easy to use as the zfs command! This is still a pretty good summary of the differences: https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs... The only part that's outdated now is that btrfs finally…
Comment linking /linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-is-better-than-btrfs
on “ZFS for Linux”Submitted Removal of Ogg Vorbis and Theora from HTML5: an outrageous disaster! as a story · 1 points
HN discussionDo any of you know why btrfs is being pushed rather than [the more mature and super flexible] zfs? There is lots of debate if you search google for comparisons, though they usually seem to end up favoring zfs, which is why I'm a little perplexed here. e.g. http://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-... Notably, I also ran into a show-stopping kernel bug [0] with btrfs within a day or two of the firs…
Comment linking /linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-is-better-than-btrfs
on “CoreOS Update: btrfs, docker 0.9, add users, writable /etc, and more”Didn't CoreOS just remove btrfs because it tended to break? Also: https://rudd-o.com/linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs...
Comment linking /linux-and-free-software/ways-in-which-zfs-is-better-than-btrfs
on “Skipping fsck during boot with systemd?”
