cannot create zfs volume: one of the devices is part of an active md or lvm device
During the migration of a RAID1 mdadm on Ubuntu server to a ZFS mirror, I got stuck at the initial zfs volume creation with the following error:
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In recent Linux releases, it’s available a tiny module called zram, that permits us to create RAM based block devices (named /dev/zramX), which will be kept in memory as compressed data. These ram-based block devices allow very fast I/O, and compression provides a reasonable amounts of memory saving.
More …Open@BNCF - LinuxDay 2011 a Pisa
This year I’ve joined the LinuxDay of Pisa with a talk about my recent works in LiberSoft to the BNCF.
More …ZFS + GlusterFS on Linux
Time is almost ripe for start using the native ZFS port on Linux (http://zfsonlinux.org/), and to increase the performances, reliability and space usage of our affordable distributed opensource storage solution.
More …Ubuntu fast boot and application launch with SSD Storage
Quick and dirty video of Ubuntu Natty 11.04 boot-up and applications launch of my Sony Vaio laptop with a Corsair 60GB SSD (http://twitpic.com/61y3n5)
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