Yeah, i recognized that after a few storage specific posts. I personally was not aware of the possibility to inject code via harddrive firmware, he was showing competence in these topics and lectured me one time after i wrote a rather naive reply in these regards, if i remember correctly.

The term "hero" triggered me.to remember about Hans Reiser, the creator of Reiser File System, which i used a lot for good performance and journaling reliability in Linux. The standard EXTFS disappointed me a little bit too often in kernel generations 2.2 and 2.4.
But his career had a sudden, sad ending, though. He went in jail for murdering his wife and development stopped.
Time to put my mind at rest. See you tomorrow when Blackrock clients may serve us a new ATH