Episode 57: 57: Computational Skeuomorphism
Hypercritical
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5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 2 March 2012
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
John Siracusa and Dan Benjamin talk more about file systems: the origins of Btrfs, how file systems might change in the new age of SSDs, the possibility of a Grand Unification of storage and memory subsystems, and why snapshots, clones, block-level diffs, and deduplication are awesome features of ZFS that would make Time Machine a lot better than it is today. The show ends with John's predictions for the new iPad, which we all assume will be announced at the Apple press event next week.
Links for this episode:
- NetApp and Oracle Agree to Dismiss Lawsuits - NetApp.com
- A short history of btrfs - LWN.net
- IntegrityChecker - diglloydTools
- Clusters: Seamless File Compression
- HFS+ file compression in Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard - Ars Technica
- Flash memory: Block erasure - Wikipedia
- FSEvents in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Ars Technica
- ZFS Deduplication - Jeff Bonwick
- ZFS: Snapshots and clones - Wikipedia
- A Conversation with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore - ACM Queue
- ZFS - The Last Word in Filesystems
- The SSD Anthology: Understanding SSDs and New Drives from OCZ - AnandTech.com
- Thunderbolt at TED2012 - Duncan Davidson
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| 0:00.0 | This is a hypercritical weekly talk show ruminating on exactly what is wrong in the world of Apple and related technologies and businesses. |
| 0:10.0 | Nothing is so perfect that it can't be complained about by my co-host John |
| 0:14.1 | Syracusea I'm Dan Benjamin. This is episode number 57 today's Friday March 2nd |
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| 0:47.0 | This is why I mean faster file systems. |
| 0:50.0 | I'm learning how to use computers today John how are you I can relaunch my apps a little bit faster |
| 0:55.6 | you have all SSD you've got mirrored and striped SSD drives in all of your computers |
| 1:01.6 | Dave Naney and the guy who makes super duper |
| 1:04.6 | doesn't trust the SSD drives typically. |
| 1:06.6 | He doesn't trust them. |
| 1:08.8 | You're not supposed to trust any drive. |
| 1:10.0 | The whole point is. |
| 1:11.8 | But he trusts those less than he distrust. He he |
| 1:14.8 | distrusts them even more than he distrust his other. What about that? People have |
| 1:18.1 | emailed asking you. What about SSDs? What about SSDs? |
| 1:20.0 | Yeah, I probably distrust them too. Well today's show will be a follow-up show on |
| 1:26.0 | file systems. So we will talk about all these issues. We don't have any other thing to talk |
| 1:31.4 | about today. No, no, no iPad three comments or predictions. |
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