We have been using CouchDB for that, saving images as an “Attachment”. But after a year the multi-dozen GB CouchDB Database files turned out to be a headache. For example CouchDB replication still has issues if you use it with very large document sizes. So we just rewrote our software to use CouchDB for image … Read more
I found this nugget at the link following. It worked perfect for me and only took 5 seconds. As of VirtualBox 4 they added support for expansion. VBoxManage modifyhd filename.vdi –resize 46080 That will resize a virtual disk image to 45GB. https://superuser.com/questions/172651/increasing-disk-space-on-virtualbox
If you trust such things, here is what Wikipedia claims (from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_genome#Information_content): The 2.9 billion base pairs of the haploid human genome correspond to a maximum of about 725 megabytes of data, since every base pair can be coded by 2 bits. Since individual genomes vary by less than 1% from each other, they can … Read more
IOPS measures the number of read and write operations per second, while throughput measures the number of bits read or written per second. Although they measure different things, they generally follow each other as IO operations have about the same size. If you have large files, you simply need more IO operations to read the … Read more
It seems to me the problem is transferring a file before it’s complete, not that you’re deleting it. If this is Linux, it’s possible for a file to be open by process A and process B can unlink the file. There’s no error, but of course A is wasting its time. Therefore, the fact that … Read more