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New Article: Building a Virtual NVMe Drive
- January 24, 2020
- Petros
- Cool Projects, In the Data Center, Storage, Data Center, Flash, Hard Drive, hdd, solid state drive, SSD
My latest article just hit the website of ADMIN Magazine called “Building a Virtual NVMe Drive.” ADMIN Magazine is owned by Linux News Media, owners of Linux Magazine. Often, older or slower hardware remains in place while the rest of the environment or world updates to the latest and greatest technologies; take, for example, Non-Volatile …
New Article: Linux Device Mapper Writecache
- November 19, 2019
- Petros
- Cool Projects, In the Data Center, Storage, Flash, hdd, nvme, solid state drive, solid state storage, SSD
So, as almost all of you know by now, Linux Journal is no more. But that does not mean that my writing has stopped. In fact, a new piece just landed the website of ADMIN Magazine called “Linux Device Mapper Writecache.” ADMIN Magazine is owned by Linux News Media, owners of Linux Magazine. Anyway, look …
Ubuntu and ZFS on Linux [Status Update]
- October 8, 2019
- Petros
Somewhat recently, I posted about Ubuntu enabling ZFS [as the root filesystem] in its operating system installer, alongside other much needed updates. Well, here we are and the Ubuntu 19.10 release is right around the corner. Last Friday, ZFS guided partitioning support was officially merged into the Ubiquity mainline. Ext4 will continue to be the …
New podcast episode: Reality 2.0 – Retro Computing with the Altair-Duino
- August 29, 2019
- Petros
- Cool Projects, altair, arduino, diy, hobby, kit, linux, retro, retrocomputing
An exciting new podcast episode is out: Reality 2.0 – Retro Computing with the Altair-Duino. This is a follow-up conversation about the Altair-Duino. Katherine Druckman, Doc Searls and myself talk to Chris Davis of www.adwaterandstir.com about his Arduino-based Altair 8800 replica kits. I had a lot of fun with this conversation. You can find the …
Ubuntu and ZFS on Linux [and how to get it right]
- August 26, 2019
- Petros
It seems like only yesterday that I read Jeff Bonwick’s blog entry “ZFS: The Last Word in Filesystems”. It was Halloween of 2005 that ZFS was released for Sun Microsystem’s Solaris, and the filesystem was very well received. For the readers not familiar with ZFS, it is a combined all-purpose filesystem and volume manager. It …
Announcement: RapidDisk version 6.0-1 released
- August 13, 2019
- Petros
RapidDisk is an advanced Linux RAM Disk which consists of a collection of modules and an administration tool. Features include: Dynamically allocate RAM as block device. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. I just tagged release version 6.0-1 on GitHub. The changelog …
Going Retro with an Altair 8800 Emulator: Introducing the Altair-Duino
- August 12, 2019
- Petros
This was originally intended for the September 2019 issue of Linux Journal Magazine focused around the theme of Cool Projects. At the dawn of [microcomputing] time came the Altair 8800. This 65 pound behemoth of a computing system was essentially the very first personal microcomputer. Based on the Intel 8080 CPU, the Altair was designed …
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