Zygo

Well, there's email...according to https://www.jwz.org/contact.html, the address you want is [email protected]. jwz has so far been unsympathetic to this kind of request. See https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop-shipping-xscreensaver/#comment-166431 > [NSFW removal] Changes I also...

He's very much not on github. As far as I can tell, he won't ever be, for a number of reasons. Please contact jwz directly and send and patches or...

Things I learned from the "Century Balance" bug miner: * Some block groups are locked or otherwise immobilized in btrfs. There are several possible reasons for this. I haven't identified...

> is it (still) necessarily a problem if btrfs runs out of unallocated space? No, but it's not necessarily not a problem either. If your metadata stays the same size...

Checksums are verified during reads. If you read the file (from disk, not from memory cache), the csums will be verified at that time. Scrubs will also read and verify...

I wrote "Checksums are verified each time the blocks are read into memory from the storage device." That's the complete list of times when checksums are verified. There is no...

btrfs is fairly CPU-heavy in the kernel, and this CPU usage can bypass normal process priority control mechanisms. Also there is much less isolation between processes for IO requests in...

Debian postgresql packages used to install with +C set on `/var/lib/postgresql/*/*` during installation. I had to set up post-install automation to turn it off.

+1 to all of the above. I don't really write the distro integration scripts, I just pull them. Usually when I try to edit them, I break them. 1. executable...

You might also want to look at https://github.com/Zygo/bees/pull/104 which aims to make the script configuration a lot more stateless.