There are a few calculators around and some of them are good but missing and on the same page. This image file size calculator will help you estimate the file size of an raster image file, provided that you know the image’s resolution and its bit depth. Why Do We Care About File Size? Think […]
Topic In an era where cyber threats are constantly evolving, securing sensitive data has become a top priority for businesses and individuals alike. With ransomware, insider threats, and unauthorized access risks on the rise, robust data protection strategies are no longer optional—they’re essential. One often overlooked but incredibly effective solution is the use of Self-Encrypting […]
I created this guide to run a test against the storage via the file system leveraging frametest.
Topic It may have crossed your mind to have in a . The reasons might be that you would like to have some kind of manual load balance or restrict access in some way. And the result: It does not work quite right. I have heard many times that this is an invalid and wrong […]
Topic Once you have your StorNext file system up and running, you may want to know what the is. File system performance measurement and a to perform some troubleshooting to hunt down the root cause. Situation When you set up your file system, you may have or have not performed a speed test. Especially in […]
This article was published on December 27, 2017 at Studiodaily.com and on January 1st, 2018 at Storagenewsletter.com We’ve all heard it — the advice of both storage vendors and solutions providers to . Otherwise … Otherwise what? What terrible disaster can possibly happen if this rule is ignored? Only a few obedient, safety-oriented users actually […]
Since it is an essential requirement for every computer, the file system has been taken for granted for a long time. There are more than 85 different choices for local file systems (at least that was the case last time I counted), including to name just a few, all covering various kinds of hardware and […]
Situation You want to connect an OSX 10.10 () or OSX 10.11 () client to your existing StorNext SAN or XSAN. Both OSX versions are based. Yosemite’s embedded XSAN version is compatible with . The XSAN version within El-Capitan apparently is only compatible with StorNext 5.x but not with StorNext 4.7 as officially listed in […]
Changing SNFS disk labels un-mount the active file system from all clients run cvadmin -e ‘stop <file system name>’ run cvfsck -j <file system name> (flushing the journal, should not be required but …) run cvfsck <file system name> expecting no errors; stop here on errors create a backup of the metadata using being paraniod […]
Topic As it’s quite easy on a generic local file system to with , it’s the opposite in a environment. In some (or even most) cases you have to offload the data, rename the file system and initialize it again. It’s also possible under , even if not well documented. No can do?
