http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html 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.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html 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.
http://www.gnu.org/software/ddrescue/manual/ddrescue_manual.html 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.
http://dga.livejournal.com/44132.html a lot of interesting details about using flash drives as cache and high-perf block io devices (notes from google talk given at UCSD)
http://www.westnet.com/~gsmith/content/postgresql/TuningPGWAL.htm Notes about PostgreSQL WAL synchronizations methods
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6931 Kernel Korner - I/O Schedulers
http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2009/07/solid-state-drive-benchmarks-and-write.html read this before rushing to by some SSDs
http://blogs.amd.co.at/robe/2008/12/graphing-linux-disk-io-statistics-with-munin.html 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.