Yeah, I’m about to give it a go, next I have tinker time.
Yeah, I’m about to give it a go, next I have tinker time.
Yes, it’s easy. BUT:
240 in the neighborhood - i.e., that’s enough to distribute from the pole to a few houses. Of course you have higher voltages to go longer distances. This is equally true for AC vs DC. Thus, the idea that it takes a looot of copper for DC is erroneous.
In fact, where conductor size is relevant is that you can use smaller conductors for DC, because of the skin effect.
Wiring: Split phase, that is also usable as 240 for large appliances. So, the latter.
Yeah. Basically, the biggest reasons for AC have to do with voltage stepping up and down, and for instant grid load knowledge. Well, and of course, existing infrastructure.
Both have solutions, but aren’t as cheap as they are for AC. But, aside from that, DC has a lot of benefits, particularly in end usage efficiency and transmission over distance.
Back in the day, the capability to easily bump up or down the voltage of electricity just wasn’t there for DC, so AC was the distance winner (high voltage is needed for distance, low voltage typically needed for usage).
I mean, you need a lot of voltage to make voltage drop irrelevant. Like, 120 or 240 volts. If distribution is voltage is the same dc/ac, we could use the same wiring (but different breakers, and everything else).
So the wiring argument doesn’t really hold up - the question is more about efficient converters to reduce voltage once it’s at the house.
I.e., for typical American distribution, it’s 240 in the neighborhood and drops to 120 in the house. If the dc does the same, the same amount of power can be drawn along existing wires.
Lineés. Linacea. Linii.
Honestly? Yeah. I agree. At the very least, a solid niche has been carved out, and it’s growing. I like that.
I’d really like to see more governmental support, but… …so it goes.
It’s a filesystem that supports all of these features (and in combination):
If that is meaningless to you, that’s fine, but it sure as hell looks good to me. You can just stick with ext3 - it’s rock solid.
Your lack of awareness is fine with me.
Or, compile gentoo from scratch as a hobby?
It’s not as bad as it seems. He just doesn’t know how valuable working with the provided structure is yet. A lot of innovative thinkers are used to questioning, bending, and tinkering with the rules. He’s just still learning how necessary the existing structure is.
Do your own research, that’s a pretty well-discussed topic, particularly as concerns ZFS.
Congrats.
This. Well said.
Kent is reasonable, and sees Linus’s need to keep order. I think he just pushes it sometimes, and doesn’t understand how problematic that can be.
That said - he has resubmitted an amended version of the patch, that doesn’t touch code outside of bcachefs, and is less than 1/3 the size.
He accepted Linus’s needs as the project head to keep order. He resubmitted the patch set without the contentious parts. It’s less than 1/3 the size and doesn’t touch code outside of bcachefs. Problem solved.
Honestly, Kent seems pretty reasonable (though impassioned), and bcachefs well probably make it, and Kent will get used to just submitting things at the right time in the cycle.
Fair enough.
It’s not that we had enough power to guarantee we would make an impact. It’s that we had enough power that we should have tried.