#linux #cs #computer #science #directory #fileSystem

Yesterday I extracted the contents of an initrd.img that came packaged in a Fedora distribution. From kernel.org I learned this mini-os can be used by the kernel during the bootup process.

I guess I could have mounted the directory to play with the tools it is configured with. But I realized I do not know the difference between a directory and a file system.

Please help me understand what is the difference between these two concepts.

VS Code extension to edit the filesystem like a text buffer

https://github.com/ahrm/voil

"df(1)" output processing in "awk(1)" to fetch the #ZFS dataset from the #fileSystem mountpoint on #FreeBSD 14 …

df -t zfs --libxo=json,pretty /var/{cache/pkg,db} \
| awk '/"name":/ { gsub( "(^\"|\",?$)", "", $NF); print $NF }'
var-2/cache-pkg
zroot2/var/db

Does anyone have a better idea (besides parsing "zfs-list(8)" output)?

Ha! Simpler …

zfs list -H -o name /var/{cache/pkg,db}
var-2/cache-pkg
zroot2/var/db

Included in that is "sort -u" as bonus!

Eh, not quite https://freeradical.zone/@ax6761/114845144411769287 …

Btrfs Allocator Hints

https://lwn.net/ml/all/cover.1747070147.git.anand.jain@oracle.com/

I wanted to store some #BorgBackup archives on an #exFAT disk so that any operating system (not just #Linux) could easily read it, but Borg needs a journaling #filesystem.

In theory, there isn't any reason why journaling can't be implemented on FAT but everybody probably doesn't consider it worth the effort.

#NTFS would work too, except some of the #Linux machines I run Borg on are running Debian Stable, whose old kernel lacks the ntfs3 driver.

Things I like about FreeBSD:

"You can tune a file system, but you cannot tune a fish."

is still listed as a bug in the tunefs man page on FreeBSD 14.3
I first saw it more that 30 years ago on SunOS that was BSD based at the time.

Found a handy CLI tool for Git >_

**git-statuses** — Display the status of multiple Git repositories in a clear, tabular format.

Scans directories recursively for Git repositories

Written in Rust!

GitHub: https://github.com/bircni/git-statuses

A Higgs-bugson in the Linux Kernel - by Nikhil Jha

https://blog.janestreet.com/a-higgs-bugson-in-the-linux-kernel/

My daughter has a friend whose sibling is no longer alive, as of recently. The family wants to access their MacBook Pro which is password protected. It's a fairly recent model, apparently, and it's unclear whether the disk is encrypted -- prob safe to assume it is (?).

Is there something Apple can/will do to help the family gain access, given proof of the situation?

Issue with filesystem, stack either heap on ubuntu when downloading files with stop and resume #filesystem #cache

https://askubuntu.com/q/1552151/612

Don't forget that your filesystem is a database you can use as such. I've been writing a diary of sorts, where each entry is just a text file, with the current date as its filename.