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How to set up ZFS with ZIL and L2ARC SSD?

I have been considering bcache and flashcache. However my friend suggested me something called ZFS. In fact it says that formating disk with ZFS can actually do the exact same thing without kernel ...
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Storing thousands of files in one directory

I have a web-site that I'm checking for performance issues and bugs, and i came across a caching code that caches thousands of files into one single directory. I understand that this is not good and ...
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Can I watch the progress of a `sync` operation?

I've copied a large file to a USB disk mounted on a Linux system with async. This returns to a command prompt relatively quickly, but when I type sync, of course, it all has to go to disk, and that ...
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File size of 60.0 PB is wrong. Can deleting it cause data loss?

While backing up some data (a 200 GB home directory) with rsync, I got an I/0 error for a particular file, after which rsync continued on "normally" with its backup. The problem source file showed as ...
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I/O statistics per user

I have access to an academic supercomputer where there is an NFS filesystem where our lab keeps our data. When I run iostats -nh I believe I am getting statistics for all users accessing all storage ...
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Copying a file that is written at the same time

This related question can't solve my exact problem, so I'm writing a similar question. My scenario is the following: a program (run by wine) writes to a file sized about 10-500 KB. About 1 KB ...
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How race conditions affect reads and writes (that happen at the same time)

Let's say I open a file a for reading. What if an application, let's call it aWriter writes to this file in random intervals. Are there any possibilities of me receiving improper file contents if I ...
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root user denied access to .gvfs in rsnapshot?

I was running rsnapshot as root and I got the following error. Why would this happen? what is .gvfs? rsnapshot weekly slave-iv ...