Month: September, 2007

Today’s motto

12 September, 2007 (17:39) | No comments

 
“@puk: user network problems are normally layer 8″
– Sr. Network Engineer

htop – an interactive process viewer

11 September, 2007 (18:51) | No comments

I’ve found an interesting tool, it’s an interactive process viewer called htop. Try it out, it’s very nice.

Network Appliance is suing Sun for ZFS

6 September, 2007 (15:18) | No comments

Network Appliance is suing Sun over patents alleged to cover parts of the ZFS filesystem. The announcement comes from NetApp’s founder and Executive VP Dave Hitz’s blog. NetApp++!

Linux Terminal Performance Comparison

6 September, 2007 (15:17) | 1 comment

Martin Ankerl compares on his blog the performance of several linux terminals.
I’m happy user of gnome-terminal :)

The ext3cow File System

6 September, 2007 (15:05) | No comments

While looking for more information about ext4 filesystem, I found an interesting patch named ext3cow. It is a versioning file system based on ext3. And how it works?
[root@storm ~]# echo “Beee” > ~/kac
[root@storm ~]# snapshot
Snapshot on .: 1062987103
[root@storm ~]# echo “Meeeee” > ~/kac
[root@storm ~]# cat ~/kac@10629871034
Beee
[root@storm ~]# ~/kac
Meeeee
[root@storm ~]#
Unfortunately, due to performance and storage overhead, [...]