Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "Linus Torvalds On Why Github Merges Are Trash" video.

  1. 0:13 Just to clarify, this was a patch to enhance the in-kernel NTFS driver, which is probably not of interest to many people. For many years we have had NTFS-3g, which is a user-mode driver that installs via FUSE, and that offers seamless read/write access to NTFS volumes. Some people assume that a kernel-mode driver will automatically offer better performance than one running as a user process. But this is NTFS, remember ...
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  2. Unfortunately, it was getting to the point where someone had to speak to him about it. He has tried to do better since then, with mixed results.
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