Tag: file systems

• File System Thots

  A brief experiment in calculating a histogram of file sizes: $ find -type f -size -128000c -printf “%k\n” \ | sort -n \ | perl -ne ‘BEGIN{ %h=(); } {chomp $_; $h{$_}++;} END { foreach my $k (sort {$h{$a} <=> $h{$b}} keys(%h)) { print “$k $h{$k}\n”; }}’ 137 3 145 3 121 3 129 5…

  jedreynolds

  April 25, 2017

  computing, fun, Linux, shell scripting

  block size, file systems, record size

• Did you know about e4defrag?

  I have never used either BleachBit or e4defrag, but I’m looking forward to trying them out.

  jedreynolds

  November 19, 2015

  computing, Linux, Uncategorized

  defrag, defragment, file systems, sysadmin, system administration, temp files, tmp files

• When NOT to Use a SAN?

  The vast number of filesystems, distributed file systems, and network replication schemes available for Linux all come with learning curves and caveats. When does one actually want to avoid merely picking out an average SAN solution and go with a Linux oriented distributed storage solution like Gluster or NFS on DRBD?

  jedreynolds

  April 15, 2010

  business, computing, F/LOSS

  file systems, Linux, replication, SAN, virtualized storage