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 …
more ...One of my favorite blogs, Create Digital Music, ran a piece on NIN doing a rehearsal for Echoplex.
It's neat to see the Lemur, a touch screen MIDI controller, used live by the drummer. Overall the song structure is relatively simple but it is amazing how well they keep together …
more ...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 …
more ...Take a look at this Intel developer's blog:
http://sarah.thesharps.us/2008-12-07-13-35.cherry
The video shows a USB flash drive transfering video at 125MB/s! To give you an idea of this speed, it is likely more than your hard disk can put out which is probably around 80MB …
more ...This blog was recently featured on Slashdot over the Thanksgiving holiday in the US. It was the perfect storm: commercial news organizations were mostly dormant creating a slow news day, and geeks like me were at home eager to …
more ...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
more ...With atomic commit, we will progress from "buggy Ext2 equivalent …
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 …
more ...Phoronix has been cranking out a slew of benchmarks recently, pitting various different Linux distros against each other and even different operating systems with their own automated test suite.
KDE 4.2 is set for release on January 27th. Eager to see what is new and improved, I installed beta 1 on my Gentoo box. KDE 4.1.80 was tagged then released late last month after the feature freeze deadline. This is a snapshot of the current development …
more ...It seems I caught the wave of interest in Linux file systems. Here are some articles worth checking out: