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<p>Someone on the internet told me I was wrong. Or, well, that my code was wrong. And a totally normal response to that is to spend over a month reverse engineering proprietary kernels and kernel modules.</p> <p>How did we get here? Well, once upon a time I was fed up with all the bugs in vmfs-tools and vmfs6-tools, so I wrote my own VMFS implementation. Except that I took a lot of shortcuts, and in doing so I inherited some of the same bugs! Fast forward to 2025, and those bugs are finally catching up to me.</p> <p>Join me as I go over the excruciating process of gathering decade old ESX(i) installation media, hunting for debug symbols, and trying to piece together how VMFS <em>actually</em> works. Oh, and fix that bug, of course.</p>