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 …This year I’ve joined the LinuxDay of Pisa with a talk about my recent works in LiberSoft to the BNCF.
More …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 …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)
More …SMART error (ErrorCount) detected on host: fs Device: /dev/sdb, ATA error count increased from 0 to 74
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