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by ivanbakel 2609 days ago
Pierre Menard, author of The Filesystem.

But I'm surprised this is possible without a specification - how can you test a filesystem through hexdumps? The effects of some operations are going to pretty far-reaching, surely?

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Might be interesting/useful to aim for zfs send/receive compatibility :)

And thanks for the Borges callout.

There are lots of blog posts, lots of docs. There's ZFS code in GRUB that is GPL, etc.
One of my favorite short stories, and nobody else has ever read it. So glad to see someone else reference it.
Link?
The original title is "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote": http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/borges-quixote.html