storage

Linux Magazine: "One of the sorely missing aspects of storage is analyzing and understanding the IO patterns of applications.

This article will examine some techniques for performing IO profiling of an application to illustrate what information you can gain."

One of the sorely missing aspects of storage is analyzing and understanding the IO patterns of applications.

This article will examine some techniques for performing IO profiling of an application to illustrate what information you can gain.

It's been a few days but the latest kernel, 2.6.33 is out. There are some changes that affect the storage world that you probably need to check out.

POSIX IO is becoming a serious impediment to IO performance and scaling. POSIX is one of the standards that enabled portable programs and POSIX IO is the portion of the standard surrounding IO.

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.

The new MBF family of 2.5-inch enterprise-class drives cab pack up to 600GB of storage.

The H Open: "Extended discard support means that Linux now supports ATA TRIM, which can increase SSD lifespan and throughput."

The company updates its Quince community-based patterns portal with a professional service for collaboration and storage.

It's the end of the year and that means it's time to either make predictions for the coming year or review the highlights from the past year.

This article takes a look at the cool things that happened around storage in the past year and perhaps hints at some things in the coming year.

Kernel Log: "The kernel development team have enhanced various aspects of Btrfs, one effect of which is to significantly improve the experimental file system's write performance."

Ubuntu Geek: "Dropbox is a storage application and service operated by Evenflow, Inc. The service enables users to store and sync files online and between computers."