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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.

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?

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.

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?

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?

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.

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.

Why Syncthing kept deleting my re-created files

I finally worked out why files seemingly at random kept disappearing from my Syncthing-synchronized directories.

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.

IPFS pinning services overcharge for duplicated objects

IPFS is a globally deduplicated file system. However, hosted pinning services bill you for the original file size rather than deduplicated size.

Structure WordPress’ upload directory to handle lots of files

Here is how to structure WordPress’ upload directory for scale. Sticking thousands of image files in one directory can cause performance problems.

How to change the UEFI System Partition size in Windows Setup

You can resize the EFI partition size from within the Windows Setup program. However, it requires a quick detour to the Command Prompt. Here’s how.

How large should you make the UEFI System Partition?

Learn how to find the right EFI system partition size and what issues you may run into if you make the EFI partition too small.

What I learned after 30 minutes with ReFS

A look at Microsoft’s next-generation Resilient File System (ReFS) in Windows 10: what works, and what doesn’t.

eSATA port-multiplier only shows up as a single disk in Windows 10

I tested multiple eSATA port-multipliers in Windows 10 but all of them refused to show more than one connected disk.

What to do when a Linux system is running out of available inodes

Learn the consequences of running out of inodes on your Linux system, and what to do when it happens.