In this article we will cover a few common physical storage configurations, as well as clustered and distributed file system options. Hopefully, this is a good starting point to begin looking into the technology that will work best for your high availability storage needs.
Read more »Storage Basics: Clustered File Systems
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Hosting Mercurial Repositories with Nginx
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Mercurial is a great distributed version control system written in Python. It is a "fast, lightweight source control management system designed for efficient handling of very large distributed projects".
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Terracotta swallows open-source Java speed pill
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Open-source Java clustering startup Terracotta is today expected to announce an acquisition that'll potentially boost the speed of clustered Java applications. The company said it's buying the IP behind the Apache-licensed Ehcache along with Ehcache founder Greg Luck, who'll be joining the Terracotta team. The goal is to integrate Ehcache with Teracotta.
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Moonlight 2 arrives and falls flat on its face
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The other day, Novell's Mono Project, announced the beta release of Moonlight 2. IN theory, this enables Linux users to watch Microsoft Silverlight encoded content. Of course, that begs the question: "What Silverlight content?"
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Moonlight 2.0 Beta 1 Rolls Out With Improvements
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While betas of Microsoft's Silverlight 3 platform have been available for a number of months after being announced in the last half of 2008, their free software implementation of Silverlight, which is known as Moonlight and developed largely by Novell with the Mono developers, has lagged behind.
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Novell Gets Closer to Silverlight With Moonlight 2 for Linux
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Open source Silverlight clone gets new milestone release as it races towards feature parity with Microsoft.
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Secure VPN the Easy Way With the Linux-based Untangle Router
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OpenVPN is a genuine secure VPN that supports both site-to-site tunnels, to create a nice secure WAN on the cheap, and remote individual clients. Eric Geier shows us how to use the Untangle gateway to set up a good stout OpenVPN server the easy way.
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Kernel Log – Coming in 2.6.31 - Part 3: Storage and file systems
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The experimental file system Btrfs, billed as the "next generation file system for Linux", should now be even faster. Libata drivers for IDE/PATA adaptors are pushing aside the IDE subsystem.
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Monitoring Multiple Log Files At A Time With MultiTail On Debian Lenny
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MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also monitor wildcards: if another file matching the wildcard has a more recent modification date, it will automatically switch to that file. That way you can, for example, monitor a complete directory of files.
Read more »HowTo Increase GFS2 Performance in a Cluster
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In the last HowTo, I showed you how to setup GFS2 file system with Red Hat Clustering. I will now show you how to optimize the performance of your GFS2 mounts. The gfs_controld daemon manages the mounting, unmounting, and the recovery of the GFS2 mounts. gfs_controld also manages the posix lock. By default the plock_rate_limit option is set to 100.
Read more »Two Useful Commands for Your Linux Server
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Want to back up files and documents on your laptop or desktop PC to a server? Assuming both machines run Linux, you can do that with just one command.
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The amazing tool called netcat
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...telnet is one of the first commands that one learns in one's UNIX journey. Nowadays telnet is getting superseded by ssh. Other tools like cat and ls make him feel at home though he is still tottering. It is a long journey to comfort from being a newbie in the UNIX command line world.
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HowTo setup GFS2 with Clustering on Red Hat or CentOS
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In my last project at work, I had to replace NFS with GFS2 and Clustering. So in this tutorial I will show you how to create a Red Hat cluster with GFS2.
Read more »Writing UDEV rules to get a SCSI scanner working on Ubuntu
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I've been setting up some Ubuntu Jaunty systems for relatives as an excuse to get rid of a lot of old hardware including some SCSI scanners. I encountered an HP scanner that was supported by sane but not recognized by Ubuntu. The device ended up with the wrong permissions preventing anyone except root from scanning.
Read more »Linux HA Example (Simple)
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Many Linux distributions ship with the heartbeat suite of software for setting up High Availability Linux. The Linux HA project has details and downloads for those who do not have it available for their system. This text addresses setting up a very simple HA Linux configuration using the configuration files versus a GUI or the XML definition files.
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