Month: March 2018

New Tricks for an old Dog…
Mark Mc KeownMarch 14, 2018Sheffield

The XFS filesystem has been around for nearly 20 years. It was first introduced by

Silicon Graphics, (RIP) for their Unix based operating system IRIX. It was designed to scale to systems with 1TB of shared memory and …

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The Biggest Weekend: Belfast
Mark Mc KeownMarch 14, 2018Belfast

There are some pretty cool bands (Beck, Orbital, Manic Street Preachers) playing Belfast for the Radio 6 The Biggest Weekend event. Some of the WANDisco@Belfast team will be there too 🙂…

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Notes on Theory of Distributed Systems
Mark Mc KeownMarch 14, 2018San Ramon

This is a real nice set of lecture notes on distributed systems covering Consensus, Logical Clocks, Paxos, FLP, failure detectors, Software Transactional Memory etc by James Aspnes.…

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Jeff Bonwick and Slab, ZFS and DSSD
Mark Mc KeownMarch 14, 2018Belfast

I tripped over this video on the Slab allocator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQVd9mZr-jI&t=840s

This is the original paper:

http://www.usenix.org/publications/library/proceedings/bos94/full_papers/bonwick.ps

I read this paper a long time ago when I was working on a code base that had implemented its own version of Slab.…

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