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UTFS: A Tar-Like File System for Embedded Systems (2025)

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-18 Cached

UTFS is a small embedded file system inspired by the TAR format, designed for microcontrollers to store data with string-based file names, separating data storage from application logic.

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@VincentLogic: A programmer had a wild idea: DNS resolvers cache domain names for a few days—so can we use them to store files? ↓ He found 3.9 million open DNS resolvers across the internet, chopped files into pieces, and scattered them across the web. No hard drive, no database, no cloud. The files live in the caches of countless servers, and those servers have no idea they're storing anything…

X AI KOLs Timeline · 2026-06-07 Cached

A programmer used the caches of 3.9 million open DNS resolvers to store file fragments, creating an absurd open-source project called dnsfs. The files disappear as the caches expire.

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Corrupting a ZFS File on Purpose

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-06 Cached

A technical guide on deliberately corrupting ZFS files using the 'zinject' tool or manual byte-level edits to understand ZFS's error handling and self-healing behavior.

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WSL 2 is getting faster Windows file system access

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-04 Cached

WSL 2 is receiving a performance improvement where each virtio device gets its own dedicated DMA (SWIOTLB) pool, eliminating contention on the virtiofs path for cross-OS file access between Windows and Linux. This change, merged in May 2026, is the latest in a series of incremental improvements to Windows/Linux file I/O performance in WSL 2.

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