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Monitoring Filesystem Metadata For Thin Provisioning

January 3, 2011 By Stephen Leave a Comment

I began by introducing the core problem: Storage isn't getting any cheaper due to storage utilization and provisioning problems. Thin provisioning isn't all it's cracked up to be, since the telephone game makes de-allocation a challenge. So now let's talk about how to make thin provisioning actually work. There are 100 different ways of solving the de-allocation problem, … [Read more...] about Monitoring Filesystem Metadata For Thin Provisioning

An Introduction To exFAT

October 1, 2010 By Stephen 3 Comments

Microsoft already gave the world FAT and NTFS, and both have become common in the non-Windows world thanks to flash drives, SD cards, and portable disks. But the folks from Redmond are now introducing a new filesystem, exFAT. Do we really need a new filesystem? The Rise and Fall of FAT Although computing is a volatile world, standards tend to stick around way past their … [Read more...] about An Introduction To exFAT

OS X Custom Drive Icons 2: Boot Camp and NTFS

September 3, 2008 By Stephen 4 Comments

In my last post, I discussed the simple but confusing steps required to add custom icons to Mac OS X drives. I mentioned that there were some tricks to getting custom icons on some drives, however, including Boot Camp and NTFS disks. This week, I'll show how to customize these as well. There are two core problems with customizing drive icons for certain volumes: OS X can't … [Read more...] about OS X Custom Drive Icons 2: Boot Camp and NTFS

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