Storage

http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2010/11/mysql-vs-postgresql-part-1-table.html An article from a well-known PostgreSQL developer comparing MySQL InnoDB and PostgreSQL table structures

http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/linux/108629/&sl=ru&tl=en&hl=&ie=UTF-8 Russian original http://habrahabr.ru/blogs/linux/108629/

http://www.netgear.ru/upload/comparison/readynas_comparison.pdf Comparison of Netgear ReadyNAS line of storage devices

http://events.linuxfoundation.org/slides/2010/linuxcon2010_wheeler.pdf PDF slides that show what happens if you create a file system with one billion (10**9 ) files

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.linux-mag.com/cache/7744/1.html detailed article about CEPTH – [client] parts of Cepth were recently accepted into the mainline linux kernel

http://zumastor.org/man/ddsnap.8.html a way to ‘sync’ block devices in ‘rsync’ style. Useful to implement backup of xen VMs based on LVM volumes. Also see http://serverfault.com/questions/27397/sync-lvm-snapshots-to-backup-server

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.btrfs/4311/focus=4342 Currently ext2, will move to ext4 . Read the discussion for more info

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFQ notes about Linux IO Scheduler - CFQ [Completely Fair Queue] . Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noop_scheduler http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anticipatory_scheduling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadline_scheduler

http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page BTRFS is a new ZFS-like linux file system, it is present in the recent kernels with “experimental” status.