Archive for the 'storage' Category

Openfiler Forums / Installation on Intel SS4200

Wednesday, July 29th, 2009

SS4200 is an Intel NAS enclosure for around $200, specs: 1G Ether, 4xSATA HDD, 1.6 intel celeron CPU, 512 MB RAM. Comes with some linux firmware or windows home server. This post tells how to install openfiler on it.

Anti-RDBMS: A list of distributed key-value stores | Richard Jones, Esq.

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

comparative review of different DHT scalable systems

" Samsung gave me 24 ultra-fast SSDs to play with. I made this! " (4 min youtube vid.)

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

show to Duilio !!!

GlusterFS – GlusterDocumentation

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

fully-distributed network file system (fully = no separate meta-data servers ). Supports data redundancy (data can be stripped/mirrored across several nodes), supposed to be high performance. supports encryption and can be embedded in app server (i….

Wuala, social online storage

Monday, October 13th, 2008

social everything, now it’s social online file sharing

To BLOB or Not To BLOB: Large Object Storage in a Database or a Filesystem?

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

a paper from microsoft research comparing perfomance of 2 systems: metadata in db + files in fs vs. meatadata + files as blobs in db. Study uses MSSQL and NTFS. Datasets are in less than 1 GB size.

Linux.com :: Benchmarking hardware RAID vs. Linux kernel software RAID

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

JULY-2008: adaptec SAS 8 port with 6 SATA HDDs vs MD-RAID for 5, 6 and 10

Merlin’s stuff: software vs hardware raid | Dell md1000 bonnie++ benchmarks

Thursday, June 26th, 2008

bonnie++ benchmark comparing dell perc 5 (lsi) hw raid controllers connected to Dell md1000 jbod box and linux md raid driver. (test was performed by a notable PostgreSQL developer )

LVM2 – Logical Volume Management – take 2

Friday, May 30th, 2008

sort of a lecture slides/presenation that contains a useful explaination how several LVM2 features actually work (i.e. backup)

Benchmarking Linux filesystems on software RAID 1 – Lone Wolves – Web, game, and open source development

Monday, April 21st, 2008

notes on 3ware 9550XS vs md RAID1 for various filesystems on Linux