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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 …
What is Edge [and Fog] Computing and How is it Redefining the Data Center?
- September 3, 2019
- Petros
- Cloud Computing, In the Data Center, Storage, cloud, cloud computing, Data Center, data storage, edge computing, Storage
Some of you may have noticed that a hot new buzzword is circulating the Internet: Edge Computing. Truth be told, this is probably a buzzword you should be paying attention to. It is creating enough of a hype for the Linux Foundation to define edge computing and its associated concepts in an Open Glossary of …
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 …
The Next Stage of Flash Storage: Computational Storage
- August 17, 2019
- Petros
With NVMe, we move the drive closer to the CPU but can we move the application closer to the drive? Throughout my career in the data storage industry, I have seen many technologies come and go. Some of the more recent technologies to disappear include Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and the Kinetic drives (although …
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 …
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