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Yellow Bricks
Personal blog · yellow-bricks.comsystemsprogramming
Yellow Bricks is a personal blog at yellow-bricks.com about systems and programming. Since 2014, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Yellow Bricks for VMware and virtualization content, such as ESXi cloning and storage. The one comment discusses instant clones and deduplication on arrays without judging the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
building blocks for virtualization
What Hacker News says?
Linked clones aren't used in ESXi, instant clones and they ARE pretty nifty and heavily used in VDI where you need to spin up many thousands of desktop VMs. But they have to keep track of what blocks change and so ever clone has a delta disk. At the end of the day you are just moving around where this bookkeeping happens. And it is best to happen on a enterprise grade array with ultra optimized inline dedupe like a…
Comment linking /2018/05/01/instant-clone-vsphere-67/
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