Search engines like Google™ can fetch documents scattered across the web in no defined order within seconds with an accuracy that never ceases to surprise. On the other hand let us pick something like Beagle™, the desktop search engine that comes with Ubuntu Linux. Why can Google turn out millions of accurate results (unless you [...]
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I have this habit of getting glued to fs types this year. I found another paper on semantic filesystems here. In my search for a semantic filesystem, I was quite pissed by the extra huge number of desktop search applications, all making logical queries to a file’s metadata. Sure, desktop search is cool, but pray [...]
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I returned after writing my english exam today at FIITJEE. Hats off to them for having thrown the practical examination 3 days after the prefinals end. I have never seen an institution with such excellent planning. I am not going to waste space on this blog writing about this education factory. Let me instead dwell [...]
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Here is an excerpt from a mail in my gmail inbox: Hide quoted text – On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 09:31:39AM +0530, Shriphani Palakodety wrote: > Hello, > You are my IDOL !!. Every ext2fs utility that I see is made by you. > There are countless times when debugfs and e2fsck played an [...]
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I am a Hindu, so what? I take every opportunity to celebrate. So I went with my dad to one of these eateries that exemplifies the “Today pleasure, tomorrow diarrhoea” category. Well I don’t actually have diarrhoea now but what happened in the morning was … well figure it out. Later that day my dad [...]
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I have not been able to post a lot these days as I am all tensed about applying to colleges and so on, it is indeed a very stressful process. I have shortlisted a few but I think it is better I don’t shoot only for the top few and also look at tier 2 [...]
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Here is a simple versioning utility – for those who like to keep it short and simple. pdumpfs is similar to Plan9′s dumpfs. pdumpfs is written in Ruby and stores snapshots in YYYY/MM/DD format. To the current snapshot, only those files are copied which actually have been modified. Those which haven’t been modified end up [...]
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Today, an unsuspecting user arrived at #computers on IRC with a complaint about a dead disk. Linux to the rescue was what we said immediately ! We made the individual download Ubuntu (sshhh…). Two hours later the download was fixed and we were working on the problem. Point 1: The drive was behaving oddly. We [...]
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Replication of data so that it can be dumped across filesystems and when one filesystem goes pfft, you can use the replica. How does it sound ? I know just like RAID 1 ( Redundant Array of Independent Disks ). I found ChironFS yesterday and it sounds cool. ChironFS is purely FUSE based and can [...]
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Let us face it, no matter how geeky we are or how computer-aware, hardlinks to directories need to be banned. But, I don’t really care, I want to be able to use hardlinks on directories. The BSDs did bring about symbolic links but a simple rsync from your free shell directory to your PWD ( [...]
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