The Storage Muse

The Best “Video Game” Ever
Michael Hay and I have posted about Cartesian scaling in a few blogs over the past couple of months. This is yet another Cartesian scaling related blog, but with a little more game. As you know Cartesian scaling is the combination of vertical and horizontal scaling. In the old days, computers [...]

There has been a lot of press within the past week about Google’s selection of EXT4 as their new default file system.  While Google’s performance numbers have yet to be published, the basic line of logic was that due to EXT2’s ability (Google’s current file system) to be more easily upgraded to EXT4 and the [...]

So I’ve read and poked around a bit on BackBlaze’s cheap storage, and there is a key point that I want to bring up: Total Cost of Ownership!  Om Malik at GigOm makes the following point:

Pronounced “butter-f-s” as many are aware is the heir apparent to the extX series of file systems in the Linux ecosystem.  There is a really great article over at LWN.net on the history of btrfs.  Note that I’ve briefly mentioned brtfs before in the context of comparison to xfs.  I think that the the more [...]

As I reported in the previous post there are some interesting things going on when we look at btrfs and xfs.  The first thing that I want to say is that even with the rapid changes of sgi, Rackable, sgi of late the XFS file system is still going strong.  In fact they have been [...]

The last post I had on a similar subject was the visualization of the Linux kernel.  Well newly added to this class of explorations is a visualization of the Linux file systems by Răzvan Musăloiu-E.