Archive for the 'kernel' Category

Ceph: The Distributed File System Creature from the Object Lagoon | Linux Magazine

Tuesday, April 20th, 2010

detailed article about CEPTH — [client] parts of Cepth were recently accepted into the mainline linux kernel

[ENG ]Xen vs. KVM security architecture comparison [from forum.opennet.ru - "Qubes - новая безопасная операционная система на базе Linux ..."]

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Notes (exert) from Joanna Rutkowska recent paper comparing KVN and XEN architectures from security and design standpoint

ArchitectNotes – Varnish [what's wrong with caching things in memory]

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

excellent notes about app design, and what can happen if an app tries to implement its own memory management

ipt_NETFLOW – Форумы NAG.RU

Friday, March 19th, 2010

pieces of info about how to compile and use ipt_netflow kernel module on centos 5

Red Hat Knowledgebase: How can I make Network interface names persistent accross reboots in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5?

Monday, March 15th, 2010

writing udev rules for ethernet inteffaces

Slides from Linux Kernel Networking Miniconf 2009 [Index of /netconf2009_slides]

Monday, March 15th, 2010

Notes performance of the recent linux kernels on Nehalem hadrware, linux kernel bridges, DCCP protocol, visualization (cgroups), configuration protocol, etc.

CCIE in 3 months – Is it possible?: Get your hands dirty with Linux on an ASR1000

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

internal details about Cisco ASR1000 “platform” router, including hardware details (/proc/cpuinfo, dmesg)

[What linux file system does google use?] Answer: [Jfs-discussion] benchmark results

Friday, January 8th, 2010

Currently ext2, will move to ext4 . Read the discussion for more info

CFQ – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

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

btrfs Wiki

Saturday, December 19th, 2009

BTRFS is a new ZFS-like linux file system, it is present in the recent kernels with “experimental” status.