https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/07/18/make-your-own-backup-system-part-1-strategy-before-scripts/
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Off By One Error in your post on this. (-:
Since 0 means a free directory entry, that's only 65535 i-nodes.
Mind you, at 8 i-nodes per block, you'd come close to the size of some contemporary discs with a maximally sized i-node table.
Making openat(2) and friends more useful in practice https://www.undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20250529080623 #openbsd #openat #open #filesystems #security #development #unveil - now also with regression tests, more discussions on tech@
BtrFS
completely sucks & i shall never again make the error of using it instead of ext4
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3FS: A high-performance distributed file system designed to address the challenges of AI training and inference workloads
Picked back up the work for VFS {g,u}id squashing. IOW, mapping all {g,u}ids down to a single {g,u}id. Any process that doesn't have that {g,u}id but is still privileged otherwise will write to disk as the squashed {g,u}id. I just finished a draft and selftests that miraculously work.
https://web.git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/log/?h=work.idmapped.squash
Probably "bugs galore" at this point. Needs more thinking.
File System Forensics by Fergus Toolan, 2025
Comprehensive forensic reference explaining how file systems function and how forensic tools might work on particular file systems. File System Forensics delivers comprehensive knowledge of how file systems function and, more importantly, how digital forensic tools might function in relation to specific file systems.
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@6d03 no but what i need understand here is
Is there a universal expression for a file, in which i could just substitute variables ( protocol name , data type etc) by case , to get the definition of file in that case
#filesystems
One of the main criticisms I read about ZFS (mainly OpenZFS) in forums and articles is that "it's not well integrated into Linux."
It's true - there is a licensing issue, and that shouldn't be underestimated. However, I believe it's wrong to judge it based on this - on FreeBSD, it is perfectly integrated (not to mention the various illumos-based OSes), and in my opinion, it should be judged for what it is, not for its integration into the different Linux distributions.
The rabbithole investigation of Nautilus' very slow cold-disk-cache folders loading performance continued this week end.
Latest findings here: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/-/issues/3374#note_2345406
Surely someone's looked into this: if I wanted to store millions or billions of files on a filesystem, I wouldn't store them in one single subdirectory / folder. I'd split them up into nested folders, so each folder held, say, 100 or 1000 or n files or folders. What's the optimum n for filesystems, for performance or space?
I've idly pondered how to experimentally gather some crude statistics, but it feels like I'm just forgetting to search some obvious keywords.
#BillionFileFS #linux #filesystems #optimization #benchmarking
Learning en orienting myself into the code of snac
Snac is fascinating
https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
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¿This relay has been closed indefinitely due to user abuse right @gyptazy ?
It has been a beautiful relay service
Thank you for the time that you've set it up for us all
https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com/
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HDD SSD space should be counted in binary.
1KB in binary is 1024.
A 32 TB hard drive is in fact 30.517578125 TB unpartitioned /unformatted capacity, as the binary system on the computer actually uses it
I know about all those confusing terms that you can find when you go and search on different engines; those are just to confuse and convolute the fact that drives sold are under capacity
Counting storage in decimals is a crime, a marketing scheme which should have been outlawed globally.
TIL about ffmpeg by example, thanks to vermaden blog post
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Vermaden has release a wonderful document again; take the time the jump to all the links, find what's interesting to you, learn about it, upgrade your self and vibrate on a higher frequentie plane
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2025/01/20/valuable-news-2025-01-20/
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A #linux (and #unix) guy with varied interests in the #kernel, #networking and #filesystems, generally #sysadmin stuff, some computer languages, a few earlier technologies #m68k #z80 #6502cpu, and #retrocomputing history including old arcade games (thus #fpga).
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