https://forums.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?pid=9883#p9883 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.
http://www.metabrew.com/article/anti-rdbms-a-list-of-distributed-key-value-stores/ comparative review of different DHT scalable systems
http://www.b3ta.com/links/287816 show to Duilio !!!
http://www.gluster.org/docs/index.php/GlusterFS 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.e. apache won’t need to go through the kernel for FS access )
http://wua.la/ social everything, now it’s social online file sharing
ftp://ftp.research.microsoft.com/pub/tr/TR-2006-45.pdf 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.
http://www.linux.com/feature/140734 JULY-2008: adaptec SAS 8 port with 6 SATA HDDs vs MD-RAID for 5, 6 and 10
http://merlinmoncure.blogspot.com/2007/08/following-are-results-of-our-testing-of.html 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 )
http://www.haifux.org/lectures/153/lvm2.html sort of a lecture slides/presenation that contains a useful explaination how several LVM2 features actually work (i.e. backup)
http://www.jejik.com/articles/2008/04/benchmarking_linux_filesystems_on_software_raid_1/ notes on 3ware 9550XS vs md RAID1 for various filesystems on Linux