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Programming Throwdown, episode 31, Unix commands.

Take it away, Jason.

Hey, so I had an absolutely terrifying moment over the Christmas holidays.

I moved a bunch of pictures from my camera to a USB drive that was connected to the router.

And I didn't realize until now, I didn't quite think about it, but, you know, like the USB drive had a journaling file system. I think it was NTFS.

And so, you know, the way journaling file system works is the driver kind of like says, I forget

the term for it, but it like like, writes things to kind of like some

cash, and then at some point decides to sort of flush the cash and actually write it to disk,

you know? And, you know, being totally incompetent, like any, you know, person who works on a

modem, like if you ever have, a router like a wireless router it's always

terrible like i bought tons of them they always they're always terrible so i trusted my file

system of these people which is a huge mistake and uh the router like just we lost power a couple

days later that means is literally days later. And the photos were just gone.

And it was all the photos I'd taken of the baby, like, for the first six months, you know?

So, wait, why did you hook it into the router in the first place?

Presumably you were going to copy it off?

No, well, you know, I just thought that, like, I actually have a NAS, but the thing is, is the NASS is a little slow to access, especially if, like, my wife, she likes to look at a bunch of pictures at the same time. And so I figured if it was on the modem, it would be one less hop, when really, like, it didn't really matter. Because the NAS's plugged straight in the modem it's kind of silly

but you know at the time you don't expect there to be this issue right so at any rate um

so i was really freaking out and then you know her computer uh i tried to like recover um you know

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