Tag: XFS

File system fragmentation sounds like a dreary topic, but nothing is as tedious as waiting for a sluggish system. Because the disks are the slowest components in the system by a large margin, careful attention to file system layout and fragmentation reduction can yield large gains. “Newer is Better” in several ways, let’s look at […]

I was flipping through the TV channels one recent evening when I came across dinosaurs chasing Sam Neill through a jungle. Jurassic Park, I haven’t seen that in ages! But after a while I wondered, where are Laura Dern and Jeff Goldblum? And these other people, they weren’t in that movie, were they? During the […]