Category Archives: File Systems
High-availability storage with GlusterFS on Ubuntu
This tutorial shows how to set up a high-availability storage with two storage servers (Ubuntu 9.10) that use GlusterFS. Each storage server will be a mirror of the other storage server, and files will be replicated automatically across both storage … Continue reading
Google to switch to EXT4
Google is apparently in the process of migrating their current EXT2 file-systems over to the more current EXT4 file-system (Ubuntu 9.10 uses it by default) Phoronix reports This was brought up in a JFS benchmarking discussion. Google’s Michael Rubin shared … Continue reading
Gluster enhances open-source clustered NAS
Gluster adds data storage management, virtual server support to open-source clustered NAS Gluster is joining a recent wave of emerging vendors adding enterprise storage management features to clustered network-attached storage (NAS) systems based on commodity hardware with this week’s release … Continue reading
New FreeBSD Foundation Project: HAST
The FreeBSD Foundation has announced that is funding a new funded project: HAST “Pawel Jakub Dawidek has been awarded a grant to implement storage replication software that will enable users to use the FreeBSD operating system for highly available configurations … Continue reading
FreeNAS Bash script for ZFS scrubbing
Gimpe has put together a bash script to automatically run a script at predifined intervals to do a scrub on each ZFS pool. Please note, this will only run on FreeNAS 0.7 (not on the 0.6x series as it doesn’t … Continue reading
Boot on BTRFS With Debian
howtoforge.com has uploaded a tutorial to boot a BTRFS filesystem on Debian This tutorial will explain you how to boot from a BTRFS filesystem with kernel 2.6.31-RC4 and BTRFS 0.19. BTRFS is a new filesystem with some really interesting features … Continue reading
btrfs: a brief comparison with ZFS
lwn.net has an overview of the history of the btrfs filesystem (wikipedia link). He also touches on the difference and similarities between btrf and ZFS, Sun’s Zetabyte File System, something that I was most intersted in: “People often ask about … Continue reading
SUN ZFS Triple-Parity RAID-Z
The standard in the RAID industry for storage is RAID-6, with recovery from a double drive failure. But it’s not going to be good enough as disk capacities increase, prolonging failed disk rebuild times and so lengthening the window of unrecoverable … Continue reading
The Btrfs file system (ZFS vs btrfs)
H-online has an interesting post explaining Btrfs, the designated “next generation file system” for Linux: Btrfs, the designated “next generation file system” for Linux, offers a range of features that are not available in other Linux file systems – and … Continue reading
