Archive for the 'disk' Category

GNU ddrescue Manual

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

manual for tool that can correctly image damaged drives, drives with bad sectors, etc. You it either from a livecd or find a package (repository) for your distribution.

GNU ddrescue Manual

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

manual for tool that can correctly image damaged drives, drives with bad sectors, etc. You it either from a livecd or find a package (repository) for your distribution.

GNU ddrescue Manual

Sunday, June 10th, 2012

manual for tool that can correctly image damaged drives, drives with bad sectors, etc. You it either from a livecd or find a package (repository) for your distribution.

dga: Notes from Google "Flash" talk at UCSD non-volatile memories workshop

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

a lot of interesting details about using flash drives as cache and high-perf block io devices (notes from google talk given at UCSD)

Tuning PostgreSQL WAL Synchronization

Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Notes about PostgreSQL WAL synchronizations methods

[Linux Journal, 2004] Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers

Friday, December 18th, 2009

Kernel Korner – I/O Schedulers

Peter Eisentraut’s Blog: Solid-State Drive Benchmarks and the Write Cache

Monday, November 16th, 2009

read this before rushing to by some SSDs

Graphing Linux Disk I/O statistics with Munin – Michael Renner’s macro-blog

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009

tells you about a plugin (a perl script ) for munin that will collect linux disk IO stats and send it to munin for pretty graphs.