Well, not exactly “benchmarking” in the strictest sense, but interesting data I find nonetheless. Setting out on my voyage to learn more about filesystems that the Linux kernel supports, I went looking for which filesystem does the best job at managing space. No speed tests. No data integrity. No feature comparisons. [...]
Last night, Christer and I were playing with the Ubuntu 8.04 installer, trying to break it, and get any last bugs reported before final is released tomorrow.
What I noticed last night, during the install really surprised me. ReiserFS is a screaming filesystem compared to XFS. After doing the install 3 times on 2 [...]
As I’m sitting in the San Jose Airport, I’m reading the sfdisk man page to get a better handle on the command. I want to script setting up partitions, rather than the interactive fdisk. As I’m reading along, I got a chuckle out of the -f or –force switch:
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Being an instructor for Guru Labs, I’m in training centers all over the nation. As such, I never know what hardware I’ll be facing, or for that matter, their network setup. This can be problematic, as setting up for class could present troubleshooting on my end before students arrive and class starts.
One of [...]
