Engineering notes, project updates, and deep dives into data tiering, storage, and open-source infrastructure.
File Stubs provide info about the file but are not the file, we put that part somewhere else.
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A cost-per-gigabyte breakdown comparing LTO-9 and cloud storage.
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A deep look at how Linux's fanotify API makes this possible.
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The Cloud is just one big cartrige. This is how we get the most out of every MB and minimize cost in the cloud.
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Files are easy to find if we make some solid tags. This is how we do it.
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SMR drives can save money and power if you treat them right.
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The file system no longer provides the location of your files.
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Moving from a testing environment to deployment means tuning up the configuration file to get the most out of your set up.
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There is a difference! You can archive your backup and you can backup your archive, but there are a lot of things that separate the two.
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Weather it is lots of small files, writing super big files, maxing capacity, giant unserchable directiories, this is how we address problems file systems have.
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Metadata isn't nothing and when you get to one million files of metadata, your file system will still battle with the large amount of files. How do we overcome this ?
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CMR drives, there is some room for improvement.
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HuskHoard tells you what your data looked like at the exact moment before the first file was touched.
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The Real 2026 Cost Math for Cold Archive
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