macOS
Reading Btrfs Partition Files on MacOS
· ☕ 3 min read
1. Background and Prerequisites Compared with Ext4, Btrfs is a younger file system with more features to play with — snapshots, subvolumes, checksum self-verification, software RAID, and even transparent compression. That said, if you do not have the operations capability behind you, it is best not to use Btrfs. This article records the process of pulling a Btrfs disk out of a Synology DSM system and reading its data.

How to Connect a Remote macOS Physical Machine for Jenkins Pipeline Builds
· ☕ 5 min read
This article also applies to connecting physical machines with ARM or MIPS architectures and FreeBSD or Windows systems. If Jenkins can reach the build machine, you can skip the Frp part. 1. The Problem In scenarios where Kubernetes is the infrastructure, when Jenkins runs a build pipeline it creates a separate Pod for each pipeline for building.

NFS Deployment and Mounting
· ☕ 1 min read
NFS (Network File System) is used to share directories over the network; once the client mounts them, they can be read and written like a local disk. This post covers deploying an NFS service on CentOS and Ubuntu, and how to mount a remote NFS directory on each system. 1.