There is a BTRFS bug in kernel 3.13 which is triggered by Kmail and causes Kmail index files to become seriously corrupt. Another bug in BTRFS causes a kernel GPF when an application tries to read …| etbe - Russell Coker
I’ve previously written Some Notes on DRBD [1] and a post about DRBD Benchmarking [2]. Previously I had determined that replication protocol C gives the best performance for DRBD, that the ba…| etbe - Russell Coker
Almost two years ago I blogged about a strange performance problem with SATA disks [1]. The problem was that certain regions of a disk gave poor linear read performance on some machines, but perfor…| etbe - Russell Coker
Below is a GNUPlot graph of ZCAV output from a 250G SATA disk. The disk has something wrong with it (other disks of the same brand in machines of the same configuration give more regular graphs). T…| etbe - Russell Coker
Eweek has an article on a new 1TB Seagate drive. Most home users don’t have a need for 1TB of storage (the only way I’ve ever filled a 300G drive is by using it for multiple backups) an…| etbe - Russell Coker
