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Running an Arch Linux Router for About a Year
So, I wasn’t so sure how soon I should write about this, but I have a fiber connection here in Seattle I’m pretty excited about. For the past decade I’d been living in Olympia, WA, where Comcast is the only game in town, and upload speeds are hampered by only having 4 channels across cable…
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Quick On-The-Fly Batch Processing Using `for` Loop in `cmd` (Windows)
I thought I’d throw this up real quick, because I am constantly using for loops in bash during normal command traversal, but I am not as familiar about how to do them in Windows – off the top, I can recall cmd has for loops, they omit done, use parens and % in place of…
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Physical to Virtual Machine Conversion with Virt-Manager Using Thin Volumes for Each VM (aka `Proxmox Style` NoCoW)
I love Proxmox, but I’ve always preferred to have a more modular style. There’s a lot to be said about ‘batteries included’ hypervisors with all the bells and whistles all set up for you automatically. But what if you want to use other elements of another hypervisor with them not meant for them specifically? Often…
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(very) Unscientific ZFS vs XFS + Thin LVM Benchmarks
I found this screenshot from a couple days ago, but it illustrates something I’ve known subjectively for a long time now: ZFS is the mother of all sequential read filesystems, but it’s quite a bit “slower” than other common filesystems (especially non-cow). That’s mainly because Linux uses a boatload of tiny files necessary to be…