Which is precisely what I said. The filesystem metadata that is _used_ is in memory. It is periodically _saved_ to disk iff there have been changes (i-node 0 for standard unix filesystems).
There is s difference between filesystem metadata and file metadata. You mention scientific and engineering uses as being particularly bad when it is my belief that the system architects are the cause of this. It is common to find bad architects in those fields. Directory structure is important. If you do not understand the particular filesystem architecture you cannot design for good and fast access. If you want a good fast access system it is absolutely necessary to understand things at that level. Most delays are not in accessing the file itself or the data within it but actually finding the file (or the bit you want) in the first place.
Traditional filesystems hold their metadata on disc? Ermmm... Exactly what do you think that the 'sync' command does. Traditionally metadata is held in memory and periodically written to disc for storage.
One the lizard has determined you are safe, he now has a safe place to hang out since not many of its predators will approach something of your size. Assuming you are human of course.
Operating (or building) any infrastructure as a business is just insane. Infrastructure is there to support other activities. Hospitals, parks, planes, railways, roads, power distribution systems, communications, none of these should be for profit enterprises. Int the past and in many places these have gone from public to private hands at great cost to consumers. A for profit business requires efficiency and there are places, particularly in infrastructure, where efficiency is not necessarily the best way to go. Safety is more important than efficiency.
Think rationally please. Let us even ignore the facts and deaths that will be caused by global warming. Let us even ignore the future. The facts are that the safest form of industrial power generation per watt that we have ever used is nuclear power even if you include Chernobyl and Fukushima. Cola does not cut it because of pollution caused deaths. Solar doesn't cut it because of the pollution caused in making them (and the coal burnt to make them). Only tidal power has a lower deaths per watt. So what you are saying is that it isn't SANE to use any form of power generation. Well, guess what, that puts us back in the caves with a life expectancy of forty if we are lucky. No medicine, no industry, nothing. So, not having power will cause even more deaths. If we want to opt for the lowest death rate then it isn't SANE to use anything except nuclear power.
Yes, it is indeed true for many, maybe most but not all governments. However not too many governments have as much power and influence, both black and white, as the US government does. The source of my bitch is that I consider the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America as two of the finest political documents ever produced and I have tremendous respect for the ideal expressed within them. However the ideals held within them are regularly, perhaps routinely, disregarded in the name of pragmatism and so-called patriotism. I believe that this is tragic for both the United States of America and, indeed, the entire world.
Everyone should take them seriously. Has it not been demonstrated pretty well that the US can extradite anyone and anything they want in most places in the world? Has it not been demonstrated that they can lie to do this with impunity?
There are colossal imbalances in power and the US seems to have no problem whatsoever with exploiting that.
There is so much that the US does that is apparently illegal by local, international, and even US law and yet the US is apparently never, ever brought to account over it.
There are two forms of libertarianism, right wing and left wing. At least there used to be........but mostly you only ever hear about the right wing libertarians nowadays. A left wing libertarian has no problem paying his share a right wing libertarian sees it as an unjust demand.
It is bullshit actually. At 56 (years) I had a six-pack. At 58 I was fat. Endocrinological failure. I cannot metabolise the fat out of my own system. My blood sugar will drop to the (dangerous) point of unconsciousness but turn fat into sugar to live? No, body doesn't do that no more.
Somehow system disks (partitions) need to be read only except when specifically authorised and all apps should be sandboxed or run in a virtual machine.
Some sharia law already exists in the UK but is only applicable to muslims. And the civil police are required to support the decisions of their sharia courts. The same think is being debated in Australia right now. Thing is even the majority of Muslims don't want sharia law but it is still encroaching on secular societies.
You will have to go back far more than thirty years. Take a look at how the Bush family fortunes were made (just one example). You would probably need to go back a century.
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Which continent? You would be correct for North America. Not so much elsewhere.
No. There is no need to retract anything. I made no erroneous claim. Stop trolling.
Which is precisely what I said. The filesystem metadata that is _used_ is in memory. It is periodically _saved_ to disk iff there have been changes (i-node 0 for standard unix filesystems).
I'm not confusing anything. I know exactly how it works.
There is s difference between filesystem metadata and file metadata. You mention scientific and engineering uses as being particularly bad when it is my belief that the system architects are the cause of this. It is common to find bad architects in those fields. Directory structure is important. If you do not understand the particular filesystem architecture you cannot design for good and fast access. If you want a good fast access system it is absolutely necessary to understand things at that level. Most delays are not in accessing the file itself or the data within it but actually finding the file (or the bit you want) in the first place.
That really depends on the directory layout and directory sizes. Study the i-node structure to understand why.
Traditional filesystems hold their metadata on disc? Ermmm... Exactly what do you think that the 'sync' command does. Traditionally metadata is held in memory and periodically written to disc for storage.
Perhaps scary but the treatment of Bradley Manning is terrifying.
I'd rate that remark up if I could.
I am not entirely sure.
Actually it is repeated every day. I am pretty sure that is what happens to people employed by the TSA.
No not IT departments. But they did form a whole core fro it. The TSA. That is precisely why such petty bureaucrats are a menace to society.
One the lizard has determined you are safe, he now has a safe place to hang out since not many of its predators will approach something of your size. Assuming you are human of course.
She was accused of this. By people who had just lied to her. I don't think their accusations hold any weight. Or should not.
If you recycle the nuclear fuel you will get another twenty-fold increase, so you can make that 400 to 660 times less.
Operating (or building) any infrastructure as a business is just insane. Infrastructure is there to support other activities. Hospitals, parks, planes, railways, roads, power distribution systems, communications, none of these should be for profit enterprises. Int the past and in many places these have gone from public to private hands at great cost to consumers. A for profit business requires efficiency and there are places, particularly in infrastructure, where efficiency is not necessarily the best way to go. Safety is more important than efficiency.
Think rationally please. Let us even ignore the facts and deaths that will be caused by global warming. Let us even ignore the future. The facts are that the safest form of industrial power generation per watt that we have ever used is nuclear power even if you include Chernobyl and Fukushima. Cola does not cut it because of pollution caused deaths. Solar doesn't cut it because of the pollution caused in making them (and the coal burnt to make them). Only tidal power has a lower deaths per watt. So what you are saying is that it isn't SANE to use any form of power generation. Well, guess what, that puts us back in the caves with a life expectancy of forty if we are lucky. No medicine, no industry, nothing. So, not having power will cause even more deaths. If we want to opt for the lowest death rate then it isn't SANE to use anything except nuclear power.
Yes, it is indeed true for many, maybe most but not all governments. However not too many governments have as much power and influence, both black and white, as the US government does. The source of my bitch is that I consider the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States of America as two of the finest political documents ever produced and I have tremendous respect for the ideal expressed within them. However the ideals held within them are regularly, perhaps routinely, disregarded in the name of pragmatism and so-called patriotism. I believe that this is tragic for both the United States of America and, indeed, the entire world.
Everyone should take them seriously. Has it not been demonstrated pretty well that the US can extradite anyone and anything they want in most places in the world? Has it not been demonstrated that they can lie to do this with impunity? There are colossal imbalances in power and the US seems to have no problem whatsoever with exploiting that. There is so much that the US does that is apparently illegal by local, international, and even US law and yet the US is apparently never, ever brought to account over it.
There are two forms of libertarianism, right wing and left wing. At least there used to be.... ....but mostly you only ever hear about the right wing libertarians nowadays. A left wing libertarian has no problem paying his share a right wing libertarian sees it as an unjust demand.
It is bullshit actually. At 56 (years) I had a six-pack. At 58 I was fat. Endocrinological failure. I cannot metabolise the fat out of my own system. My blood sugar will drop to the (dangerous) point of unconsciousness but turn fat into sugar to live? No, body doesn't do that no more.
To me that sounds like you are agreeing with the premise. In a way it appears that you are just restating the measurement problem.
Somehow system disks (partitions) need to be read only except when specifically authorised and all apps should be sandboxed or run in a virtual machine.
Some sharia law already exists in the UK but is only applicable to muslims. And the civil police are required to support the decisions of their sharia courts. The same think is being debated in Australia right now. Thing is even the majority of Muslims don't want sharia law but it is still encroaching on secular societies.
You will have to go back far more than thirty years. Take a look at how the Bush family fortunes were made (just one example). You would probably need to go back a century.