How to Make Windows Faster than Linux Tech Source: "I can go on and on explaining about its quickness but since I'm here to teach you how to make Windows faster than Linux, I will now share with you these tips:" (Jul 16, 2010)
Linux Today Features
Claimed Proof That UNIX Code Was Copied Into Linux Slashdot: "SCO's ex-CEO's brother, a lawyer named Kevin McBride, has finally revealed some of the UNIX code that SCO claimed was copied into Linux." (Jul 12, 2010)
NetApp threatens Coraid over sales of open-source ZFS technology (Jul 6, 2010, 21:33 UTC) (2812 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Storage startup Coraid may face legal action from NetApp if the company does not cease plans to sell the Coraid EtherDrive Z-Series NAS appliance based on the open-source Zettabyte File System (ZFS)."
Why Enterprise Tape Can't Get No Respect (Jun 18, 2010, 15:07 UTC) (2699 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "I had to think long and hard for reasons why sites would not use both tape types, and I came up with two reasons: library support for enterprise tape drives, and a lack of standards for enterprise tape."
Disk Backup With Amanda On Debian Lenny (Jun 17, 2010, 14:18 UTC) (2625 reads)
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(feedback) HowtoForge: "Amanda is an open source client/server solution to back up filesystems. Backups are triggered by the backup server, backup definitions are located on the servers but exclusion lists are located on the client."
HowTo: Speed Up Linux Software Raid Building And Re-syncing (Jun 17, 2010, 07:32 UTC) (3422 reads)
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(feedback) nixCraft: "It is no secret that I am a pretty big fan of excellent Linux Software RAID. Creating, assembling and rebuilding small array is fine. But, things started to get nasty when you try to rebuild or resync large size array."
Creating a NAS Box Using OpenFiler (Jun 17, 2010, 03:28 UTC) (3761 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "In a recent walkthru we outlined the steps for taking an existing server and converting it into a NAS box. This article takes examines an alternative: a dedicated NAS distribution called OpenFiler that allows you to very simply create a stand-alone NAS box that can be administered over the web."
Choosing the Right Solid State Drive for Your Storage Network (Apr 13, 2010, 21:02 UTC) (2529 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Choosing the right solid state drive (SSD) for your enterprise storage networking environment is a critical decision — and equally critical is making sure you have the right controller to get the most out of the pricey drives."
Webopedia Terms of the Day: Storage Networking Versus Storage Management (Mar 9, 2010, 10:36 UTC) (2733 reads)
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(feedback) Webopedia: "The number of storage-related IT phrases and lingo grows by leaps and bounds — on a seemingly daily basis. For example, there is storage area network, storage consolidation, storage optimization, and storage virtualization, to name but a few of the popular storage trends. To get you started on the path to storage enlightenment we compare two of the most recently added storage terms on Webopedia."
Choosing the Right Solid State Drive for Your Storage Network (Mar 9, 2010, 01:34 UTC) (2677 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Choosing the right solid state drive (SSD) for your enterprise storage networking environment is a critical decision — and equally critical is making sure you have the right controller to get the most out of the pricey drives."
POSIX IO Must Die! (Mar 3, 2010, 18:32 UTC) (4372 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Magazine: "But as the world of storage evolves with greatly increasing capacities and greatly increasing performance, it is time for POSIX IO to evolve or die."
Terabytes of Storage for Pennies a Gigabyte
(Sep 11, 2009, 06:42 UTC) (7155 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "One online backup provider took a hard look at data storage costs and decided to build its own storage servers for just pennies a gigabyte. Backblaze's solution — a 4U rack-mounted Linux-based server that contains 67 terabytes at a cost of $7,867, or a little more than 11 cents a gigabyte."
Configure Bacula for Open Source Backups (Jun 26, 2009, 18:47 UTC) (5662 reads)
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(feedback) EnterpriseStorageForum: "Since we covered installation and a very basic initial run the last time we looked at Bacula, let's look at some of the more specific configuration options and capabilities this time."
Linux-Powered Enterprise Storage: Openfiler (Jun 25, 2009, 19:48 UTC) (5946 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxPlanet: "One network storage software vendor, Openfiler, never needed to be convinced of the benefits of offering enterprises an open source network storage operating system."
Falling 10GbE Prices Spell Doom for Fibre Channel (Jun 18, 2009, 21:33 UTC) (5818 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "I have been tracking the prices of 4Gb and 8Gb Fibre Channel (FC) and 10Gb Ethernet (10GbE) for more than a year, and just recently I have started to see what I have been expecting: Dramatic price drops in 10 GbE."
Oracle, Emulex Unite to Fight Data Corruption (Dec 3, 2008, 14:03 UTC) (5005 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Oracle announced today that it is contributing block I/O data integrity infrastructure code to Linux, which has been accepted into the 2.6.27 Linux kernel."
Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB (Nov 13, 2008, 09:03 UTC) (6132 reads)
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(feedback) Phoronix: "In this article we are looking at the Sapphire Radeon HD 4830 512MB under Ubuntu Linux."
Using LinuxDefender Live to Rescue Your Windows NTFS Drive (Sep 24, 2008, 14:02 UTC) (8477 reads)
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(feedback) The Linux and Unix Menagerie: "Did I actually mention Windows and NTFS in the title of this post? It's a good thing I managed to squeeze a little Linux in there or I'd commit myself to the nearest convalescent home immediately."
The Enterprise and Open-Source Storage (Jun 27, 2008, 03:00 UTC) (7485 reads)
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(feedback) Storage Soup: "...I've also heard similar withering talk about Sun's open storage in particular, and can only imagine Sun's open-source push is making this topic timely..."
Remote Backups for Linux and BSD (Jun 2, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (8972 reads)
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(feedback) Raiden's Realm: "Backups are an important element of system maintenance on any system, and should be, at least in my opinion, mandatory for all users to perform regularly..."
Linux File Systems: Ready for the Future? (May 31, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (15674 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "My article three weeks ago on Linux file systems set off a firestorm unlike any other I've written in the decade I've been writing on storage and technology issues..."
Online Storage with Wuala (May 27, 2008, 00:00 UTC) (8603 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "At it's most basic level, Wuala is an online storage service. Like other services it aims to allow you to access your files from anywhere, even if your home or office computer is turned off..."
Recover a MySQL Table with Zmanda Recovery Manager (May 13, 2008, 06:00 UTC) (7953 reads)
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(feedback) Linux Journal: "If somebody accidentally drops a critical table in MySQL, the application no longer works. The solution to this problem is to utilize the (open source) Zmanda Recovery Manager..."
Linux File Systems: You Get What You Pay For (May 12, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (17324 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "Linux file systems have a number of limitations that make them a poor choice for large and high-performance computing environments..."
Geek Sheet: Bare-Metal Backup and Recovery (May 8, 2008, 18:00 UTC) (13829 reads)
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(feedback) Between the Lines: "Tired of the same old punditry and OS wars? Want to read something practical you can actually use and apply to your real job...?"
Indexing Offline CD-ROM Archives (May 8, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (7494 reads)
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(feedback) Free Software Magazine: "Suppose you've been good (or sort of good anyway), and you have a huge stack of CD-ROMs (or DVDs) with backups and archives of your old files. Great. But how can you find anything...?"
Sun Pushes Open Source Storage (May 3, 2008, 16:00 UTC) (8516 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Storage Forum: "The vendor contends that open source technology provides cheaper, more cost-effective storage infrastructures, just as open source efforts in the past led to cheaper server environments..."
Bacula: Backups That Don't Suck (Apr 24, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (12324 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Good systems administrators know that implementing a robust backup procedure is one of their most important duties..."
Gifts of Open Source (Apr 22, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (6797 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxWorld: "Combining 'Open Source' and 'storage' in the same sentence used to trigger a sardonic grin, but no longer. The availability of free and open software is as true today for storage as it is for operating systems and applications..."
Benchmarking Linux Filesystems on Software RAID 1 (Apr 22, 2008, 09:00 UTC) (14910 reads)
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(feedback) Lone Wolves: "A couple of months ago I got a couple of wonderful birthday presents. My lovely geeky girlfriend got me two Western Digital 500 GB SATA 3.0 drives, which were promptly supplemented with a 3ware 9550XS 4-port hardware RAID card..."
Inspecting Disk IO Performance with fio (Apr 10, 2008, 07:30 UTC) (11627 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Storage performance has failed to keep up with that of other major components of computer systems. Hard disks have gotten larger, but their speed has not kept pace with the relative speed improvements in RAM and CPU technology..."
Linux Gains New Architecture Support (Mar 28, 2008, 10:30 UTC) (10161 reads)
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(feedback) LinuxDevices: "Dozens of network-attached storage (NAS) servers and other consumer appliances are about to gain mainline kernel and Debian GNU/Linux support..."
Multipath Storage with Xen and DS4800 (Mar 12, 2008, 04:30 UTC) (8967 reads)
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(feedback) developerWorks: "Virtualization technology was part of the IBM mainframe decades before virtualization gained its current industry adoption..."
Manage a Linux RAID 10 Storage Server (Mar 5, 2008, 07:00 UTC) (12677 reads)
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(feedback) Enterprise Networking Planet: "Today we'll learn how to monitor, maintain, and make changes in our RAID 10 array. We'll make it bigger, smaller, safely test failure recovery, and set up monitoring and failure notifications..."
Create a Backup Server with Restore (Feb 21, 2008, 13:00 UTC) (13637 reads)
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(feedback) Linux.com: "Perhaps the number one reason why people neglect to back up their desktops is the lack of workable solution. It can be difficult to find a method configurable enough to suite everyone's needs..."
