Re: Work on ext4

[Nick Krause <xerofoify@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 8:45 AM, Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 12:01:54AM -0400, Nick Krause wrote:
>> I have got some work in brtfs for now , Ted so I won't
>> be able to run the tests for you for the next few weeks
>> probably. Sorry about the issues, but brtfs seems
>> more work then ext4 as of this point in time.
>
> Yes, that's probably true.
>
> One bit of advice.  I'd encourage you to think about this not about
> your lending help to a project.  At your level of experience, you will
> be consuming far more project development resources than you will be
> contributing, no matter whether it is btrfs or ext4.  I'd suggest that
> you focus on learning, and in order to do that, you will need to focus
> on one area --- and by that I mean not just one subsystem, but one
> feature or one specific subarea --- for a sustained amount of effort.
> I have to agree with Hugo Mills' observation that you are "bouncing
> all over the place like a hyperactive puppy".  His advice is on the
> mark; listen to it.
>
> There are no short cuts.  Malcolm Gladwell's book "Outliers" quotes
> some studies which show that on average, master musicians have
> accumulated an average 10,000 hours of practice before they achieved
> mastery.  Some other sources have "debunked" Gladwell's claim by
> showing in their studies, it has required 10,000 to **30,000** hours
> of practice.  So if anything 10,000 hours is not a magic threshold,
> and it might be much more than that for some.
>
> No doubt you will be higher functioning contributor --- a journeyman
> --- before you achieve complete mastery of the craft of programming,
> but at this point, you are barely an apprentice.  And as such, people
> who spend time hand holding you are doing so in the hopes that some
> point, the investment the OSS community has put into you will pay off,
> and you will start adding more value than you are subtracting, and
> then, in turn, that you will "pay it forward".  But that point, at
> which the breakeven is reached and you can start contributing at a
> high level and perhaps, mentoring other enthusiastic newocmers, is
> months if not years away.
>
> Good luck on your journey,
>
>                                                 - Ted
Ted,
I am already reading the brtfs good and found some work there.
Regards Nick