I dream of pervasive virtualization...

I dream of a day where virtualization is pervasive.

Instead of thinking about services in terms of servers, CPUs or directly mapped resources, I should be able to to add virtual machines in terms of guaranteed throughput rate over a whole grid. Scaling out should be as easy as adding …

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How to upgrade to ext4 in place

Here's how you upgrade to ext4. The process is pretty easy, but requires an fsck which means unmounting or rebooting if the file system is in use.

Make sure you are using at least e2fstools 1.41.3 and kernel 2.6.28 (or a vendor kernel with latest ext4 …

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Linux and the PC Mentaility

Here's a minor thought dump of the moment: no hard numbers, just some general observations over the past year or two.

I've heard the comparison between Linux and other UNIX like OSes a few times in the past. Of course it is a bit hard to compare "Linux" - which is …

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Tux3 by Christmas?

Development seem to be going well for Tux3.

Daniel Phillips of Tux3 just posted the following to the LKML:

The big goals for Christmas (this Christmas!) are:

  • SMP locking
  • Atomic commit
  • Posixly complete
  • Rudimentary fsck

With the following comical reference

With atomic commit, we will progress from "buggy Ext2 equivalent …

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Retrocomputing for Fun and Profit

  1. Buy Old Computers
  2. ???
  3. Profit

What is retrocomputing?

I define retrocomputing [wikipedia] as the collecting and use of old computers. Why might one do this? Well, for one, enterprises cycle out machines fairly frequently. 2,3,4 and 5 year old systems are often sent out to scrappers in droves despite …

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