Interesting read on progress of the LessFS and Btrfs file systems:
LessFS Pairs De-Duplication With Snappy Compression
Btrfs Picks Up Snappy Compression Support
NAS Servers, Systems & Storage Technology
Posted by Gerard on January 19, 2012 in File Systems · 0 Comment
Interesting read on progress of the LessFS and Btrfs file systems:
LessFS Pairs De-Duplication With Snappy Compression
Btrfs Picks Up Snappy Compression Support
Posted by Gerard on November 12, 2011 in unRAID, Windows Home Server (WHS) · 0 Comment
Jim Metcalf has put together a 3-part series of articles reviewing unRAID.
He goes through unRAID‘s installation and configuring. He also explains the tradeoffs and install details of unRAID storage alternative to Windows Home Server (WHS).
About unRAID: unRAID Server is a Network Attached Storage server operating system designed to boot from a USB Flash device and specifically designed for digital media storage. It employs a unique RAID technology, close to RAID4, but without striping, which provides for great configuration flexibility.For more unRAID related posts, check out the unRAID category.
Posted by Gerard on November 8, 2011 in File Systems · 0 Comment
Linux kernel 3.2 will be out early next year, and included will be some exciting changes for the btrfs file system:
“Among the noteworthy changes to Btrfs in Linux 3.2 compared to Linux 3.1 are many clean-ups and optimizations, scrubber improvements (including performance improvements), error handling fixes, and improved recovery support. There were also some log tree improvements to Btrfs, but they were backed out at the last minute and now a likely candidate for the Linux 3.3 kernel. ”
Phoronix has more details: Btrfs brings “Pretty Beefy” Changes in Linux 3.2
Though the main development of FreeNAS (8) has been taken over by iXsystems, there are still improving and updating the previous 0.7 series. This due to some “home user features” that are missing from the FreeNAS 8 series (torrent downloading, streaming media, small footprint etc).
The latest release is FreeNAS 0.7.2.8191. Some of the changes included are:
Download or upgrade FreeNAS 0.7 from SF: http://sourceforge.net/projects/freenas/files/FreeNAS-7-Stable/0.7.2.8191/
If you follow the steps as described on extremetech.com you can set up your own personal cloud using free programs and an old PC.
What you need is:
How to make your own personal media cloud using free programs and an old PC