Comparison of File Systems And Speeding Up Applications

Update: I’ve done a newer article on this subject at http://log.amitshah.net/2009/04/re-comparing-file-systems.html that removes some of the deficiencies in the tests mentioned here and has newer, more accurate results along with some new file systems. How should one allocate disk space for a file for later writing? ftruncate() (or lseek() followed...

Startups in 14 sentences

Paul Graham has an article on the top 13 things to keep in mind for entrepreneurs. I have one to add (for software startups): - Going open source can helpYou might have a brilliant idea and a cool new product. It mostly will be disruptive technology. You might think of...

Making Suspend Safer for File Systems

I saw these File System Freezing patches that got merged into Linus’ tree yesterday and instantly thought that these patches could be used to freeze file systems before going into a suspended state. At the recent foss.in/2008, I met with Christoph Hellwig and one of the things we discussed was...

Modesty

A Quote, after a long time. A few friends were having a discussion on modesty and my opinion was called for. This is what I had to say: I don’t blow my own trumpet. Never. There are people who say things about me, though. So I feel compelled to correct...

Animal Farm

I’m (re-)reading Animal Farm these days, 2-3 pages a day. I can’t help but correlate it to the headline-grabbing news that’s happening these days. <div class="blogger-post-footer"> <p>This is a post from http://log.amitshah.net/, licensed CC BY-SA. </div>

KVM: Disabled by BIOS

I spent some time fixing this on a Dell Optiplex 755. I thought it was a BIOS update that was necesary and had to hunt for a DOS bootable that could run the EXE given by Dell. FreeDOS wouldn’t work. Finally found a disk given by Dell (with some other...

Laptops: The New Desktops

As laptop sales are outpacing desktop sales and laptops becoming more and more capable, it’s no wonder that laptops are now the preferred choice for a computer. The prices of laptops have fallen dramatically to aid this trend. However, with this growing trend, there now comes a need to have...

Piracy

The Indian movie industry (and that’s not just “Bollywood”) is plagued with piracy of movies as well as music. I’ve had several friends staying abroad telling me about recent releases they saw “on the Internet”. Of course, songs are always to be downloaded and not bought. A movie I saw...

Traffic

Traffic of the vehicular kind. Not the one I see on this blog. It’s not just traffic, it’s terrorism on roads. Every day. Every minute. I’m petrified of road accidents, and the people in Pune (or anywhere else in India, for that matter) don’t let me breathe easy whenever I...

SPICE demo

Though people by now have a fairly good idea of what Qumranet does and what the product is about, there’s a really nice demo up at the briforum website where you can see SolidICE, SPICE and KVM in action: http://media.brianmadden.com/briforumplayer/bfplayerdynamic.asp?id=425 <div class="blogger-post-footer"> <p>This is a post from http://log.amitshah.net/, licensed CC...