Apple Patents FS Converter !
I found this article on Storagemojo. Seemingly, Apple has come up with a filesystem converter. A remarkable breakthrough! Just imagine the ease with which I could experiment, I have to keep aside an entire drive while trying out new things and this is a PITA. Instead this patent filed on the 1st of August is [...]
mukt.in and ZFS
I have returned from mukt.in a bit wiser. Mr. Raju Alluri from Sun Microsystems spoke about a new wave of innovation that promised to change the way the storage industry operated. ZFS- the new filesystem from Sun Microsystems. I was at my attentive best here. I began listening. ZFS presents a pool type storage (I [...]
Hacking up Gmail.
I went to a friend’s place yesterday and within minutes found myself staring at the computer there (family friend, not mine exactly). I would have loved to listen to my music there as this guy’s hard rock ( soft/hard rock are oxymorons ) bugs me. I wanted to listen to Kitaro’s instrumental music or Billy [...]
PersiFS
I found this research paper while looking for versioning filesystems (yeah, I’m obsessed with versioning). What I found striking about this paper was the different way it approaches versioning. Most filesystems that I have covered take snapshots of files and in filesystems like ext3cow, one can access the previous version of the file using a [...]
Filesystems with versioning support.
We developers can’t do without versioning can we. We write crap html to test our parser and end up committing this as well to the server and then move back to a previous version so that those who use svn to get the bleeding edge version of the software do not get your useless html [...]
iPod woes
My iPod began behaving oddly today. I plugged it in and tried to copy an entire album to /Music/Evanescence. To all those wondering, let me tell you that rockbox offers you to listen to music placed anywhere on the iPod’s filesystem. That way I don’t need to stick to the default iPod way of organising [...]
jammed dirname.py on top of mount.py
Trouble’s struck !!. Ubuntu’s libATA has stopped functioning and my partitions are now seen as IDE subsystems once again. Hence we have a conflict between udev rules and device names leading to automount getting <censored>. I seriously can’t be bothered by this. Considering that I try to behave as much as a sysadmin as possible, [...]
Feisty fawn, first observation
I got my feisty cds this morning. I installed feisty immediately and considering that one of the ubuntu devs on #ubuntu told me that feisty’s way of handling storage devices had changed, I immediately did: shriphani@psp-laptop:~$ cat /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/sda3 UUID=1a97343a-e3ed-48e2-9db4-ea67228fb1aa [...]