Engineering notes, project updates, and deep dives into data tiering, storage, and open-source infrastructure.
Most compression formats make you decompress from the start. Zstd seekable frames let HuskHoard jump straight to any byte in a cold archive — here's how it works.
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A cost-per-gigabyte breakdown comparing LTO-9, spinning rust, cloud cold storage, and NVMe — with real numbers from a home media server running HuskHoard.
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HuskHoard intercepts every filesystem event without touching kernel space. A deep look at how Linux's fanotify API makes this possible and what tradeoffs we made.
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