MacOS
5 options for auto-mounting network shares on MacOS
How to get MacOS to automatically (re-)mount network shares (SMB/NFS/AFP/…) when your network-attached storage (NAS) is available. Free and premium options.
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Syncthing: The data deduplication master
Syncthing can deduplicate data before network transfers and even utilize on-disk storage deduplication on modern file systems on Linux, Solaris, and Windows.
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What are sparse files and how to tell if a file is stored sparsely
An overview of which operating and file systems support sparse files, how to identify such files, program support, and sparse files versus file system compression.
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What’s with cp --reflink: failed to clone: Invalid argument?
What would case a file-cloning attempt using the copy command to return “invalid argument”? It can be hard to identify the underlying issue.
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The 0,5 MB of nothing in all Apple Music files
Six percentage of each music files you’ve bought from Apple Music (iTunes Store) contain, literally, nothing. Why is Apple padding their music with zero-bytes?
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Options for deduplicating storage of TV series intros
Exploring whether deduplicating file systems or other deduplication alternatives can be used to reduce the storage cost of duplicated media content.
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How to distinguish between files, links, and cloned files
You can clone files on modern copy-on-write file systems in a way that doesn’t require extra storage space. But how do you tell a file, link, and clones apart?
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Which file systems support file cloning
You can instantly clone files on many copy-on-write (CoW) file systems. But how do you do that in different operating and file systems?
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Fretted M.2 connector cause difficult-to-diagnose performance slowdown
A fretted PCIe M.2 connector between the mainboard and an M.2 SATA SSD drive caused intermittent and difficult-to-diagnose Windows 10 performance problems.
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Cubbit NAS is an IoT datacenter-trojan for your home
Cubbit promises peer-to-peer redundancy for your data hosted by its other customers. They product will also act as a datacenter operated from your home.
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Why Syncthing kept deleting my re-created files
I finally worked out why files seemingly at random kept disappearing from my Syncthing-synchronized directories.
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BtrFS vs Ext4 performance on random-read/write operations
I got a faster disk and investigate alternate file systems to fix a disk I/O performance bottlenecked. The difference between BtrFS and Ext4 were unexpected.