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F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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Post by jgalt212 »

jgalt212 wrote: post #22
robotresearcher wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Y’all aren’t running your agents as root?

Has anyone run a study on how long you can run an agent as root before irreparable damage is done to the VM? A sort of gambler's ruin for the YOLO LLM Age.

37 days maybe with Codex?

> "On my machine, after about 21 days of uptime, the main SSD has written about 37 TB," wrote developer Rui Fan, a project management committee member of Apache Flink. "Process/file-level checks show Codex SQLite logs are the main continuous writer

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/06/23/openai-code...

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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Post by farmerbb »

neogoose wrote: post #2

This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

Just finished reading the README, it was refreshing to read something that wasn't generated by an LLM for a change.

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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Post by tough »

nomel wrote: post #15
neogoose wrote: post #2

This is practically the most useless project becuase you can not run it without sudo permissions, but it was insanely fun to work on it supports ext4, btrfs, and apfs. Multithreaded, supports compression, nested volumes, and can even search detached volumes like .iso and .dmg without mounting An interesting bonus point: you can't really vibe code it cause clankers can not run sudo commands

> cause clankers can not run sudo commands They absolutely can. There's nothing special about a these harnesses. You automate sudo the same way you would automate in any other context. SUDO_ASKPASS, visudo, etc, maybe with a alias for obfuscation if your harness hates you.

i have askSudo and askPassword that let the llm ask for one-time sudo use or passwords (without leaking them to their context)

Re: F* file system – file search that reads SSD directly bypassing OS kernel

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Post by zith »

helterskelter wrote: post #21
robotresearcher wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Y’all aren’t running your agents as root?

Real men run as root: https://www.garyshood.com/root/

I run as uid 0, but it's not called root, because my system is mine and I'll call it what I want.
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