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nginx rewrite to index

May 27th, 2009 · No Comments

Looking to rewrite all file requests to index?
location / {
root /var/www/nginx-default;
index index.html;
if (!-e $request_filename) {
rewrite . /index.html last;
}
}

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When Open Source kills

May 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments

RieserFS is a journalling filesystem that is excellent when dealing with small files under 4K in size. When used with tail-packing it is 10-15x faster then ext2/ext3. ReiserFS was first included in Linux kernel 2.4.1 and even used as default filesystem in SUSE Enterprise Linux and others. What many may not know is that [...]

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