Emerging Linux filesystems

Linux & Open Source News Alert This newsletter is sponsored by NetApp Whitepaper: Server virtualization for SMBs Server virtualization is not only meant for the largest enterprise organizations. In this whitepaper, Server Virtualization for Small and Medium-size Businesses, learn how this technology is ideal for smaller IT shops. This whitepaper explains how simplifying hardware and server applications with virtualization software allows for key operational improvements. LinuxWorld's Linux and Open Source News Alert, 09/19/07 LinuxWorld.com Feature Emerging Linux filesystems - LinuxWorld, 09/11/07: Most people's concept of a filesystem is “that thing that keeps my files organized in directories, and lets me set permissions on them”. In other words, it's just a tool. But there is also an implicit bargain in this. In exchange for trusting the software with our files, we expect a filesystem to be quick to deliver and store the data we need, and also not corrupt any of it in any strange or unusual ways. The problems that filesystem developers face are, to be frank, growing a lot harder. They are facing ever-increasing disk sizes, along with seek times that are not keeping pace with the size of the disk they need to seek over. Some filesystem developers even wish to be able to spot and recover from hardware errors that corrupt your data, the kind that can happen when your hard disk starts to fail, for instance. Straight Talk from Security Experts Leading security experts share their advice, secrets and real-world experiences in Network Worlds latest Executive Guide, "The Security Treadmill." Learn how to get inside users heads, fight for a bigger security budget and much more. Click here to download this Executive Guide. In this three-part series, Chris Samuel runs the latest Linux fileystems against the old standards in a grueling series of benchmarks—and adds a comparison to ZFS on Solaris. (read more) More Linux news SCO's Chapter 11 filing postpones Novell trial - LinuxWorld, 09/14/07: SCO Group, a company known more for the lawsuits it files than the products it makes, Friday filed for federal court protection under U.S. bankruptcy laws, automatically postponing a pending trial to determine the money it must pay in a long-running copyright dispute with Novell. iPhone is only tip of mobile Internet device onslaught - LinuxWorld, 09/14/07: ABI has released a study predicting the widespread use of ultramobile devices that will be able to access the Internet from anywhere at any time. Group releases free iPhone unlock hack - LinuxWorld, 09/13/07: A hacker group released a free, open-source unlock for Apple.'s iPhone late Tuesday, just a day after a commercial company started selling something similar for as much as $99 through a network of online resellers. University touts Cisco for load balancing, virtualization - LinuxWorld, 09/13/07: In July, Brandeis University began using the Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) to manage Moodle, an open-source program for building online learning sites. Year-old QuickTime bug gives hackers new drive-by attack - LinuxWorld, 09/13/07: A year-old bug in QuickTime that, when paired with Firefox allows, hackers to hijack PCs and Macs now has Mozilla scrambling for a fix, the company's chief security officer said Wednesday. Book Review: Ruby by Example - LinuxWorld, 09/12/07: Kevin C. Baird's book helps experienced programmers pick up Ruby skills, including Rails, with a series of well-explained example scripts. LinuxWorld Community Sitemap script, 09/18/07: We got some spam from a company offering to build a Google Sitemap (now sitemaps.org sitemap) for $125. But it's quicker and easier to build one with this handy Perl script. Do AdBlock Plus users hate Paul McNamara's kids? And is Doc Searls right about the upcoming shock to Journalism from the petering out of Advertising? We look at the real message of advertising and a quick JavaScript hack to block the banner blockers.

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