Category Archives: Linux

PROUHD: RAID for the end-user.

2010/04/14 – 07:23

RAID has still not been adopted by most end-users despite its inherent quality such as performance and reliability. Reasons such as complexity of RAID technology (levels, hard/soft), set-up, or support may be given. We believe the main reason is that most end-users own a vast amount of heterogeneous storage devices (USB stick, IDE/SATA/SCSI internal/external hard [...]

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Dealing with ssh “hidden” stuff: config file

2009/07/29 – 19:51

If you use ssh a lot, you may sometimes feel tired giving same options all the time for the same server. For example if you have an account ‘alpha’ on a server called ‘tarentula’ you may use the following command: ssh alpha@tarentula You may simplify your life: insert the following lines into your .ssh/config: Host [...]

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Choosing the right File System Layout under Linux

2009/07/21 – 13:34

As you may probably know, Linux supports various filesystems such as ext2, ext3, ext4, xfs, reiserfs, jfs among others. Few users really consider this part of a system, selecting default options of their distribution’s installer. In this article, I will give some reasons for a better consideration of the file-system and of its layout. I [...]

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