Mastodawn

🐢 Ah, the classic story of "let's reinvent the wheel, but with extra steps"! 🚀 Instead of using ls like mere mortals, let's sprinkle some #io_uring magic dust on it and call it a day. Because clearly, what the world needed was a multi-pipeline, issue-ridden version of listing files! 🙃
https://tangled.sh/@rockorager.dev/lsr #reinventingthewheel #filesystem #innovation #techhumor #programmingstruggles #HackerNews #ngated

@rockorager.dev/lsr

ls but with io_uring

cybertrapped 1d ago

#linux #cs #computer #science #directory #fileSystem

Yesterday I extracted the contents of an initrd.img that came packaged in a Fedora distribution. From kernel.org I learned this mini-os can be used by the kernel during the bootup process.

I guess I could have mounted the directory to play with the tools it is configured with. But I realized I do not know the difference between a directory and a file system.

Please help me understand what is the difference between these two concepts.

Hacker News 3d ago

VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer

https://github.com/ahrm/voil

#HackerNews #VSCode #Extensions #Filesystem #Editing #TextBuffer #GitHub

GitHub - ahrm/voil

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SciPunk 6d ago

In the movie Hackers (1995), a group of nerds hack into computer networks to outsmart corrupt authorities and uncover a conspiracy.

The film features a mix of retro computing aesthetics, cyberpunk themes, and real-life cybersecurity concepts like sudo and root access.

#hackers #retro #computing #cybersecurity #cyberpunk #movies #sudo #root #god #cyberspace #datasecurity #hacking #computers #network #blackhat #whitehat #cyberpunkaesthetic #computers #filesystem #fisherstevens #pennjillette

Hacker News Jul 11

Btrfs Allocator Hints

https://lwn.net/ml/all/cover.1747070147.git.anand.jain@oracle.com/

#HackerNews #Btrfs #Allocator #Hints #Btrfs #Filesystem #Storage #Optimization #Data #Management #Linux #Community

[PATCH RFC 00/10] btrfs: new performance-based chunk allocation using device roles [LWN.net]

argv minus one Jul 10

I wanted to store some #BorgBackup archives on an #exFAT disk so that any operating system (not just #Linux) could easily read it, but Borg needs a journaling #filesystem. 😢

In theory, there isn't any reason why journaling can't be implemented on FAT 🤔 but everybody probably doesn't consider it worth the effort.

#NTFS would work too, except some of the #Linux machines I run Borg on are running Debian Stable, whose old kernel lacks the ntfs3 driver. 🤦‍♂️

Grumpy Old Techie 🕊️Jul 10

Things I like about FreeBSD:

"You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."

is still listed as a bug in the tunefs man page on FreeBSD 14.3
I first saw it more that 30 years ago on SunOS that was BSD based at the time.

#FreeBSD #filesystem #unix #sunos

0x49D1 Jul 10

Check out this insightful article on Linux symbolic and hard links! A great read for tech enthusiasts. https://karlygash-yakiyayeva.dev/understanding-symbolic-links-and-hard-links-in-linux
Made me complete several discussions with AI to dig deeper and understand several fundamental principles about popular Linux file systems + compare to Windows' MFT
#linux #tech #inode #filesystem

Orhun Parmaksız 👾Jul 6

Found a handy CLI tool for Git >_

🔍 **git-statuses** — Display the status of multiple Git repositories in a clear, tabular format.

🌀 Scans directories recursively for Git repositories

🦀 Written in Rust!

⭐ GitHub: https://github.com/bircni/git-statuses

#rustlang #git #repository #scan #filesystem #commandline #vcs #terminal

Christian Noll Jul 4

A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel - by Nikhil Jha

https://blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugson-in-the-linux-kernel/

#programming #linux #kernel #rustlang #bug #filesystem

A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel

We recently ran across a strange higgs-bugson that manifested itself in a critical system that stores and distributes the firm’s trading activity data, calle...

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