Category Archives: Linuxy

Build A Moat

Posted on August 24, 2009 by M@

Your app is falling down because it’s been Slashdotted. Your database can’t handle the query surge. Your app is highly dynamic so tossing up a static front-page, using Akamai, etc. isn’t viable. How can you handle 30kviews/s? You have a … Continue reading →

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FOSS’s Microsoft Hatred "a Disease"

Posted on July 27, 2009 by M@

Purloined wholesale from SlashDot, and reposted. The hypocrisy of a vocal minority of FOSS-purists has been overwhelming. As Linus accurately points out, we’re all in it for selfish reasons. No one likes working on the boring bits, and we all … Continue reading →

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Levanta Intrepid

Posted on April 22, 2008 by M@

[NOTE: This was written a while ago] [UPDATE: Levanta is toast]. Remember LinuxCare? That ambitious start-up back-in-the-day that wanted to revolutionize Linux support? Yeah, they died. But from the ashes rose Levanta. Unlike LinuxCare, Levanta has been studiously working on … Continue reading →

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EXT4, AKA "Watching M@ Wrestle His Demons"

Posted on March 10, 2008 by M@

As someone with a history in filesystems, I have kept abreast of the EXT4 developments, most recently, an interview with Eric Sandeen on the topic, from an RH/Fedora angle. EXT4 will have lots of features new to EXT3 (as well … Continue reading →

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Back to Billboarding

Posted on March 4, 2008 by M@

Billboarding used to be the way to share groups of read-heavy bit or small-byte data across numerous processes or systems. The concept was simple: Have a file with a bunch of zeros in it, and on occasion change one of … Continue reading →

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All IMAP Servers Are Not Created Equal

Posted on February 22, 2008 by M@

Many moons ago, we decided to move away from the old standard POP -based e-mail, and offer/promote IMAP instead. The paradigms are drastically different. With POP, users log in and [are supposed to] download their mail to their local computer. … Continue reading →

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What Bruce Said

Posted on January 15, 2008 by M@

I agree completely.

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New rofs version

Posted on December 7, 2006 by M@

As of 11/28/2006, there’s a new version of rofs that doesn’t leak. Thanks to Martin Pärtel for pointing out a memory leak (malloc() with no free()s). I’ve been running this in a high-use environment and it hasn’t grown a byte … Continue reading →

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rofs – The Read-Only Filesystem for FUSE

Posted on September 28, 2006 by M@

I love being redundant. Long story short I needed a read-only file system that was: Lightweight Underlying filesystem agnositic Supported XATTR read XACLs/made access() calls I didn’t find any I liked, and a remount of the filesystem using NFS wasn’t … Continue reading →

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[ANNOUNCE] CopyFS 1.3M

Posted on February 14, 2006 by M@

[UPDATE: There is a newer version of CopyFS available] CopyFS 1.3M is a non-official branch of the CopyFS filesystem for FUSE. v1.3M should be considered an “advanced beta”. As it is a FUSE filesystem, faults in the filesystem cannot cause … Continue reading →

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