Later on in deployment, it will go somewhere else. Somewhere that has been evaluated for being able to handle it.
In that way, /dev/null is to storage what `true` is to execution - it just works.
Both (along with a lot of the standard utilities) are a testament to what talented C programmers plus years of people beating on them in unintended ways can achieve in terms of reliability/stability.
Shellshock [0] is a rather famous example, but bugs like that are rare enough that they make the news when they're found.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_%28software_bug%29
The correct spelling is “seems”. I first assumed it was a typo, but since you did it twice I thought you might like to know.
Wait: that's just not true.
Carry on.
However with a single server, it doesn't perfectly linearly scale with multiple clients. I'm getting
1 client: 5GB/s
2 clients: 8GB/s
3 client: 8.7GB/s
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null bs=1M status=progress
yes | pv > /dev/null
yes $(printf %1024s | tr " " "y") | pv > /dev/null
Or string concatenation, or pipeviewer.
https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/yes.c
best post of the week ^^
The Chinese comments ("issues") also seem to be the same kind of jokes as the English ones, "no code means no bugs, perfect", etc., from the few I tried getting translations of. I imagine this went viral on Chinese social media, which makes sense since it's the sort of joke that's easy to translate and doesn't depend on particular cultural assumptions or anything.
Considering there is no way to read back data written to /dev/null it will not be useful for storing database data.
‘return 5’
Discussed on HN a few times, but apparently not for a few years now: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.supersimplestorag...
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Truly, it is the only database which can be scaled to unlimited nodes and remain fully CAP.
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I am putting my marketing hat on right now.
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