ZFS helped to remove code

The only thing more satisfying than writing code is being able to remove it (this is, incidently, yet another reason why slop coding anything you care about is nonsense). I was talking with a client in the UK a fortnight or so ago now who’d written his own file store system he’d carried around for years. It stored metadata for each file in a database, which also included a hash of each file, and basic attributes he wanted to track. Upon retrieval of each file using a vaguely object store-like...