Comment by throwaway894345
3 months ago
> they abandoned POSIX compatibility, built a massively over-complicated product
This is a wild sentence--how can you criticize them for abandoning POSIX support __and__ building a massively over-complicated product? Making a reliable POSIX system is inherently very complex.
I think the criticism (just interpreting the post, don’t know anything about the technical situation) is that the complication is not necessary/worthwhile.
POSIX can be complicated, but it puts you in a nice ecosystem, so for some use-cases complex POSIX support is not over complicated. It is just… appropriately complicated.
Sure, but then you can make that argument about any of the features in Minio, in which case the parent's argument about Minio as a whole being overcomplicated is invalidated. Probably the more sensible way to look at things is "value / complexity" or "bang for buck", but even there I think POSIX loses since it's relatively little value for a relatively large amount of complexity.
Yeah. I don’t actually know if they are right or wrong, it depends on the ecosystem the project wants to hook in to, right? I just want to reduce it from “wild” to “debatable,” haha.
What would go in to POSIX compatibility for a product like this which would make it complicated? Because the kind of stuff that stands out to me is the use of Linux specific syscalls like epoll/io_uring vs trad POSIX stuff like poll. That doesn't seem too complicated?