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Exploring High Bandwidth Filesystems on Large Systems
White Paper This paper presents the results of an investigation conducted by SGI into streaming filesystem throughput on the Altix platform with a high bandwidth disk subsystem. The paper starts by describing some of the background that led to this project and... [08 Jul 2008]
Implementing Oracle 10g RAC With ASM on AIX
White Paper Prior to the release of Oracle Database Server 10g, database administrators had to choose between raw logical volumes or filesystems to house their data files. The decision to implement one or the other was always a compromise, as raw logical... [30 Apr 2008]
Prism: Lightweight Filesystem Virtualization Via Selective Cloning
White Paper Suppose filesystems supported cloning of any subset of directories, even those containing gigabytes of data, almost instantaneously, while guaranteeing isolation between the original copy and the cloned copy. [29 Feb 2008]
Linux Server Hacks: Piece Together Data From the Lost+Found
White Paper The fsck utility, created by Ted Kowalski and others at Bell Labs for ancient versions of Unix, removed much of the black magic from checking and correcting the consistency of Unix filesystems. One of the coolest things that fsck brought to Unix... [24 Oct 2007]
Linux Desktop Hacks: Use an iPod With Linux
White Paper The two variants of the iPod are formatted with different filesystems: HFS+ in the case of the Mac, and FAT32 in the case of Windows. This paper shows how to use an iPod with Linux. It's aimed at Linux purists - that is, people who don't want to... [24 Oct 2007]
Squid: Advanced Disk Cache Topics
White Paper The reason for this performance limitation is due to the importance that Unix filesystems place on consistency after a system crash. With traditional Unix filesystems, certain operations always block the calling process. [17 Oct 2007]
Introduction to Linux Cluster Filesystems
White Paper More accurately, most clusters have two main components: servers, which are connected to some sort of shared storage media through a fast network, and filesystems, which act as the software "Glue" that keeps the cluster nodes working together. [07 Aug 2007]
Union Mounts for Linux
White Paper Unlike a traditional mount that hides the contents of the mountpoint, a union mount presents a view as if the filesystems are merged together. In combination with an execute-in-place filesystem, union mounts can be used for efficient software... [03 Apr 2007]
Filesystem Performance and Scalability in Linux 2.4.17
White Paper The Linux kernel is unique in that it supports a wide variety of high-quality filesystems. This paper compares the performance of these filesystems using Linux 2.4.17 and three benchmarks: pgmeter, an open source implementation of the Intel Iometer... [03 Apr 2007]
Shared Parallel Filesystems in Heterogeneous Linux Multi-Cluster Environments
White Paper This paper examines parallel filesystems for shared deployment across multiple Linux clusters running with different hardware architectures and operating systems. The analysis shows that all of the parallel filesystems outperform a legacy NFS... [01 Apr 2007]
Build Object-Based Filesystem Into Linux: Technical Report (LCX-SSRC-2002-09)
White Paper The performance of OBFS is two times as good as that of EXT2 and is better than some other filesystems, such as XFS, when OBFS is designed as a separate filesystem, but not a filesystem under VFS(Virtual Filesystem) of Linux. [01 Apr 2007]
Scalable, Fault-Tolerant NAS for Oracle - The Next Generation: Introducing the HP Enterprise File Services Cluster Gateway for Oracle Database Deployments
White Paper This paper has briefly covered the compelling reasons why a SAN gateway product is a good way to present filesystems via NFS to the Oracle servers. The paper also has covered the caveats associated with different NAS architectures. [21 Feb 2007]
Oracle 10g RAC Deployment on AIX Using VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle RAC
White Paper VERITAS Storage Foundation for Oracle Real Application Clusters (SFRAC) provides an integrated solution stack for using clustered filesystems with Oracle RAC on AIX, as an alternative to using raw logical volumes, Automatic Storage Management (ASM... [18 Feb 2007]
XML Storage Models: One Size Does Not Fit All
White Paper Like many of the protocols, filesystems, and technologies of the World Wide Web, eXtensible Markup Language (XML) has gone from humble beginnings to widespread implementation in a comparatively short period of time. [13 Oct 2006]
Testing SMP Kernel Modules With UML
White Paper An instance of Linux - a full Linux kernel running with its own complete directory tree, device nodes, filesystems, etc.as needed - runs in non-privileged user mode as an application. UML was developed as a new Linux architecture, although it doesn... [13 Feb 2005]
