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> i also dont really get the point of zerofs. Seems like you are building a posix fs on top of s3 that is built on top of a posix fs That can literally be the stack, but the same a…

Yes, I think it’s worth benchmarking. zerofs mount has durable fsync and fcntl byte-range locking. Inotify works for changes made through the local mount. It won’t report changes m…

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Hardlinks work as you’d expect: multiple paths point to the same inode and data, so a write through one path is visible through the others. Two separate files with the same content…

Thanks! stat doesn’t pull the file contents from S3; it only accesses the metadata tree, which is usually cached. I haven’t benchmarked Borg or Restic specifically. Sequential writ…

That’s a fair concern. The closest thing right now is a deterministic simulation suite that injects storage faults and crashes at arbitrary points, then checks the recovered data a…

Author here. Thanks for posting this! It’s been quite a ride building ZeroFS, and I’m happy to answer any questions.

Hi HN, I've been working on building a pipeline to create a DNS records database lately. The goal is to enable research as well as competitive landscape analysis on the internet. T…

Hi, The mechanism is explained here: https://www.merklemap.com/documentation/how-it-works

I am working on https://www.merklemap.com/ A subdomain / CT search engine.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/Barre/privaxy It’s a proxy that does just this.

Shameless plug: https://github.com/Barre/privaxy It can be easily configured to block any host or path.

What are the things that you think are best handled by the browser while negotiating a session?

Privaxy is matching chrome on https://badssl.com/dashboard/ and https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/viewMyClient.html except that Privaxy doesn't support older TLS versions and poorer …