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| Disks from the perspective of a file system |
| By Thom Holwerda, submitted by MOS6510 on 2012-09-08 14:01:00 |
| "Most applications do not deal with disks directly, instead storing their data in files in a file system, which protects us from those scoundrel disks. After all, a key task of the file system is to ensure that the file system can always be recovered to a consistent state after an unplanned system crash (for example, a power failure). While a good file system will be able to beat the disks into submission, the required effort can be great and the reduced performance annoying. This article examines the shortcuts that disks take and the hoops that file systems must jump through to get the desired reliability." |
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| Thank you |
| By B. Janssen on 2012-09-09 09:11:35 |
| Very interesting and solid article. Of course it is only of an introductionary level but I can't imagine which systems administrator couldn't benefit from a read-through. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. |
 - Score: 6 |
| Author was involved in UFS |
| By hughobrien on 2012-09-09 14:05:46 |
| Author is Marshall Kirk McKusic, well known for his work on BSD/FreeBSD and the UFS filesystem. Someone worth listening to. |
| - Score: 3 |
| RE: So |
| By Brendan on 2012-09-09 17:40:20 |
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Hi, > I'm just asking, as the current state is "hey, look ma', I don't have time for anything else, so let's make another lame news syndication web site" Sad. It is my fault (not Thom's), because I haven't contributed an article to OSnews. Unfortunately I'm not the only person who hasn't contributed an article to OSnews - it's a widespread problem. I just want to thank you Peteo, for all of the well written articles that you have contributed in the past. I can understand how someone like you, who has contributed so many articles, might be a little upset at everyone else who hasn't. - Brendan |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE[2]: So |
| By peteo on 2012-09-09 17:44:48 |
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> Hi, I just want to thank you Peteo, for all of the well written articles that you have contributed in the past. I can understand how someone like you, who has contributed so many articles, might be a little upset at everyone else who hasn't. - Brendan I've submitted ten articles, which makes your sarcasm look really silly (no, not submitted as peteo, since the overlord didn't like critisism and banned my original account.) Edited 2012-09-09 17:53 UTC |
| - Score: 0 |
| RE[3]: So |
| By Brendan on 2012-09-09 17:55:45 |
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Hi, > I've submitted ten articles starting in 2004, which makes your sarcasm look really silly. Heh - I took a gamble, and I lost. In any case, I don't think it's fair to blame Thom and only Thom. Edit: for the content I mean - I have no idea about the "banned original account" thing. - Brendan Edited 2012-09-09 17:58 UTC |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[4]: So |
| By peteo on 2012-09-09 18:16:01 |
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> I don't think it's fair to blame Thom and only Thom I tend to blame editors for editorial problems. Producing original insightful articles, interesting interviews, etc, requires a pretty huge amount of effort. In practice, the effort our "editor" is willing to put in is that of linking to articles and occasionally making (to me, pretty nonsensical) comments on them. That's not an edited news site. It's a blog. If Thom called OSNews his personal (stolen) blog, then fine. Then that's what it is. |
| - Score: 1 |
| RE: So |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-09 18:24:40 |
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Thom probably doesn't have much time, but compared to the other OSNews members he spends by far the most time on this site. Without Thom there would be no OSNews. My guess is this site has a few thousand active readers. Anyone can write or submit an article, most don't. I don't think it's fair to almost demand more effort from Thom. This is his hobby, not a paid job. I've put in some effort to submit links to articles that are more interesting, more technical, more educational and less Apple/pattent related and a number did get linked (by Thom). If more people did this Thom has more choice to pick really good ones. |
| - Score: 4 |
| RE[5]: So |
| By MOS6510 on 2012-09-09 18:28:54 |
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I don't think we should hang Thom until there is a replacement and I don't see one in the near future. He may hate my favorite brand, but he has my vote to stay on. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE: Thank you |
| By Bill Shooter of Bul on 2012-09-09 20:30:23 |
| Well, Its interesting to me to understand the crappy code and config options in server applications that are designed around rotating disks. We only use flash pci-e cards for performance reasons. The real challenge is to then figure out how these options based on rotating disks affect flash that's still using a traditional file system that also has tweaks and options for rotating disks. |
| - Score: 2 |
| RE[2]: So |
| By fran on 2012-09-10 06:54:37 |
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> Thom probably doesn't have much time, but compared to the other OSNews members he spends by far the most time on this site. Without Thom there would be no OSNews. My guess is this site has a few thousand active readers. Anyone can write or submit an article, most don't. I don't think it's fair to almost demand more effort from Thom. This is his hobby, not a paid job. I've put in some effort to submit links to articles that are more interesting, more technical, more educational and less Apple/pattent related and a number did get linked (by Thom). If more people did this Thom has more choice to pick really good ones. The problem imo is that the editors expect a higher quality from submitters than what they write themselves. This make it very daunting to contribute since you get extremely scrutinized by someone with a degree in journalism and language. This is not all the time every time, but it is true to some extent of the submissions. Edited 2012-09-10 06:55 UTC |
| - Score: 2 |
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