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some thoughts » Cloud Files Object Copy — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:59:04 +0000

[...] now supported server-side in the latest version of Cloud Files (http://launchpad.net/swift). See my newer post for more [...]

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Tweets that mention Compressed File Reader -- Topsy.com — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:43:31 +0000

[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by john. john said: streaming a file as compressed data http://programmerthoughts.com/programming/compressed-file-reader/ [...]

Comment on Deleted File Recovery by Sune

Sune — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:27:21 +0000

Thanks a lot!

My two year old boy was also able to find both the “delete all” and “confirm” buttons on the Vado. He even managed to record new videos on top of the clean file system, so I was in deep trouble.

TestDisk didn’t help, but you led me to find PhotoRec (from the same magicians that make TestDisk), and it saved videos from my brother’s wedding as well as my youngest son’s first hours and days.
Backups have been made this time!

Comment on Finding a good storage solution by Tarin

Tarin — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 01:44:47 +0000

Well it seems that things have not got any better in the bast year regardless what the paid marketers are posting in here.

We set up a Drobo in a basic configuration of a MacMini OSX Server (2x500Gb internal drives in RAID1) and the FireWire800 attached Drobo. It has 4×1.5Tb Western Digital drives and all lights are green.

This thing is SLOW.. it averages 20 megabytes per second writing however reading is a bit faster.

The worrying thing though is that it is silently and irrevocably corrupting the stored data. We only find out when Photoshop or InDesign suddenly don’t open a file citing corruption or missing plug-in issues. Yes I know about the Adobe best practice methods of copying to the desktop before working and this is done but it seems the damage is occurring in the “down time” between edits.

Time Machine is faithfully backing up the data in its corrupted state so that becomes useless as well.

I see this this thing as a nightmare for businesses as I have no faith in the device to store data accurately over time.

The diagnostics, and indeed any useful information on this device, are encrypted by default forcing each simple question into a lengthy email conversation where we have to email over encrypted data files and hope for a response.

We literally cannot tell what is the problem or if one even exists.

The last round of corruption got bad enough that DiskWarrior 4.2 (the latest) could not even complete reading the drive. This time around DiskWarrior simply crashes the server cold with a Kernel Panic.

Please be careful with your choice on these units as they will go quietly and take your data with them.

Comment on Finding a good storage solution by Tom Tomchak

Tom Tomchak — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:24:57 +0000

I somehow stumbled on your post while looking for solutions to fix my locked drobo, and was happy when I did. You verified that some of the problems I’m having are not specific to me.

Overall I really liked the drobo when it came out, but I’m finding more and more over time that there are limitations to it, and it’s always been a concern that it’s their own proprietary system.

The speed issue continues to be an issue on pretty much all of their units. It’s painful if you have the original one as I do.

Anyway, thanks for the post and all of the ZFS details. It’s too bad it’s not more widely adopted by all platforms. It’s hard to see a downside to it.

Comment on When building a starship… by Adrian Scott

Adrian Scott — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 10:44:57 +0000

I have a sense that the Cylons are using open-source too ;)

Comment on Deleted File Recovery by justin

justin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 04:45:27 +0000

Did you ever know that you’re my hero? That is a seriously awesome save there!!

Comment on Finding a good storage solution by John

John — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:54:10 +0000

Honestly, what worries me most about ZFS at this point is that it is now owned by Oracle :-).

I haven’t had any problems with my file server, so I’ve had no reason to reinvestigate the world of Drobo. I think they have a good product for certain use cases. Unfortunately, it didn’t meet my needs.

Home storage solutions haven’t changed much recently, so if I did it all again today, I’d probably end up with something very similar.

Comment on Finding a good storage solution by Steven H

Steven H — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:13:01 +0000

Sounds like you have the same goals I have in mind currently (and the last few months). I’ve outgrown Time Machine external storage drives and need to expand. Have you considered Drobo’s recent developments (FireWire 800 / Drobo S / iSCSI / Drobo Elite?) Would you recommend still running your own server with ZFS or do you think Drobo is worth another look at this point?

Also, I just noticed that you’re a RackSpace Cloud Files guy – I <3 your work. Do what you can to get me cname support for my CDN files eh? :)

Comment on Quickly uploading data to Cloud Files by Tweets that mention Quickly uploading data to Cloud Files « some thoughts -- Topsy.com

Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:26:46 +0000

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