storage series
Some of the content is mildly dated, but this series of posts a few years ago is still something I refer to quite often:
Tag: storage
remembering to forget
As a society, we have forgotten how to forget. We are addicted to storing everything forever. Why? New Atlas had an article recently on the demise of skyscrapers in favor of new ones which starts off, The Great Pyramid of Giza has stood at a height of around 460 feet for 4,500 years, but these…
fallocate vs dd for swap file creation
I recently ran across this helpful Digital Ocean community answer about creating a swap file at droplet creation time. So I decided to test how long using my old method (using dd) takes to run vs using fallocate. Here’s how long it takes to run fallocate on a fresh 40GB droplet: root@ubuntu:/# rm swapfile &&…
putting owncloud 8 on a subdomain instead of a subdirectory on centos 7
After moving to a new server, I wanted to finally get ownCloud up and running (over SSL, of course) on it. And I like subdomains for different services, so I wanted to put it at sub.domain.tld. This turns out to be not as straight-forward as one might otherwise hope, sadly – ownCloud expects to be…
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above the cloud storage
Who wants to go into business with me? I’ve got a super-cool storage company idea. Load up a metric buttload of cubesats with radiation-hardened SSD storage, solar power, and [relatively] simple communicaton stacks (secured by SSH or SSL, of course), and launch them into orbit. You think cloud storage is cool? What about above-the-cloud storage? Pros:…
dell buys emc
So I missed predicting anything like this one. If you’ve been under a rock, like apparently I was last week, you’ve missed out on hearing Dell is purchasing EMC. For $67 billion. With a “B”. This seems to be taking lots of people by surprise, but it makes perfect sense: Dell is already a huge supplier of servers into not only…
on-demand, secure, distributed storage – one step closer
In follow-up to a post from 2013, and earlier this year, I’ve been working on a pointy-clicky deployable MooseFS+ownCloud atop encrypted file systems environment you can rent/buy as a service from my company. I’ve also – potentially – kicked-off a new project from Bitnami to add MooseFS to their apps list.