Archives June 6, 2007
Shared storage mechanism (Temporary GBs of ganged storage)
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Young Coders.
As I was walking home I was considering the question of large-media "special events", such as wanting to watch a multi-GB movie off the network at school. If the class wants to record an event (school play) at high enough resolution to do a good job of editing where would the children store the gigabytes ...
Persistent storage in chroot-protected systems (Issue that needs to be dealt with...)
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One of the issues still pending in the overlay filesystem approach is how to handle persistent information for a given application in a general way. Some examples of persistent information use-cases:
Most document-editing applications include a "most recently used" list of the documents edited within them that can be selected and edited with a single ...
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Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.