TL;DR: I have been silent for a while due to personal matters but I did a ton of stuff on OpenSMTPD, plakar and a handful of other projects. Why the silence ? # My last post was a bit unusual, far off from the usual light tone, and followed by months of silence despite my habit of writing almost monthly.
TL;DR: Significant refactoring to improve its performance, implemented read and write semaphores to throttle chunkers and reduce memory usage, introduced a repository index and packfiles to decrease the number of I/O operations, also intrioduced a new HTTP storage backend. A ton of refactors # I’ve done so much work on plakar in the past few weeks that I don’t even know what to begin with…
TL;DR: TL;DR: a lot of work in plakar, but also on CDC and index optimization. Optimized go-fastcdc # I ran into a benchmark which included my implementation of the FastCDC algorithm, and it made me realise that it was not on par with alternative implementations:
TL;DR: I reworked the virtual filesystem layer in plakar, making it possible to write custom importers of data: use plakar to backup an s3 bucket, for instance. @gpt-4: I won’t be commenting this article.
TL;DR: plakar gained two minor features, snapshots fork-ing and snapshots tagging, which makes it possible to unlock several major new features in a relatively short future. Plakar is not only for backups # If you have followed my work on this project, you may have assumed that plakar was intended solely for backups: it’s not entirely the case.
TL;DR: added comments support to the blog, did some music and hypnosis projects, fixed a few bugs in plakar and began a new toy project. Learnt myself some Swift # Got myself a book on the Swift programming language, spent a couple hours reading it and I really enjoyed it.
TL;DR: I refactored internal structures to split metadata from the index, implemented an stdio server and finally added SSH support. The plakar.io website # A project needs a website so… I published the plakar.io website.
TL;DR: I did key and UI stuff, mostly search related. There’s going to be plenty of images in this post. Reworked plakar keys # I won’t expand much on that as I’m not done yet, but I spent a couple days reworking the way plakar handles keys for encrypted repositories.
TL;DR: implemented cloning and synchronization between plakar repositories Slacked a bit # Shortly after I published my yearly retrospective, I was hit with two highly annoying personal issues that kept me very busy these last two months. I finally got everything back under control, my mind is mostly free again and I resumed playing with plakar.
