The very first thing I remove when I install Fedora. It's such a bloat that only takes up space and memory for most people.

It's socket-activated, so doesn't really take up memory unless you actively use it.

Same!

remove cockpit*, install fish shell :-)

Yeah. Pretty much.

Read the defrag code in other well-established fs like ext4 or btrfs. They all have limitations(or caveats, if you will). It's one of those problems where you just have to throw money at it and hope for the best. Even Microsoft kinda just gave up on it because it's really a pointless exercise at this point in time and age.

I did the same. Was genuinely curious. Didn't get much from it. I'm still confused.

The code base is huge for an LLM to handle, perhaps it was generated over multiple prompts idk. Not sure if someone can train a model on the kernel code or exfatprogs and generate the code. I doubt someone with such expertise would even go through the process when they can just write the code themselves which is much easier.

Multiple prompts are mandatory for anything non-trivial or/and larger in scope. That said, the exfatprogs repo is ~60k tokens (in 8k LOC) and Linux's exfat driver* is ~40k tokens (in 6k LOC). So directly relevant code is ~100k tokens (in 14k LOC). Not that extensive.

>Not sure if someone can train a model on the kernel code or exfatprogs and generate the code.

They can certainly finetune such a model. Not a crazy idea, just computationally expensive. (But less expensive than training from scratch.)

*Of course Linux driver also uses many includes so if consider those alongside linked code the number goes significantly up.

> just computationally expensive. (But less expensive than training from scratch.)

Model training requires GPUs w/ 1kW TDP. I can shit out code on noodles and red bulls. Not sure about the quality, but still way less energy :)

Jokes aside, the defrag program probably was a slob to some extent.

I don't get it. That post was a whole bag of nothing. Why are you guys upvoting it?

I've had it happen to me, so not a whole bag of nothing, and might be surprising to some.

Also, a topic which can spur some interesting comments.