Ways to monitor hard-drive activity and usage in OS X
CNET (blog)
Oddly enough, the Finder or another filesystem browser can be exceptionally useful in isolating files that are updated by programs. When a file is edited its modification date will change, so if you suspect a particular file holds a specific system ...
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EMC Isilon Announces 15-Petabyte NAS
InformationWeek
By Andrew Conry Murray InformationWeek Isilon has announced a new NAS device that can scale to 15 petabytes of data in single file system. The device, the 108NL, is a scale-out NAS hardware platform. The company also announced a new application for the ...
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Chrome OS Lives!
PC Magazine
Of course, it's still not clear to me how, with the new file system, your offline files will be saved and moved to the new computer—or are they also all residing in the cloud? The Google co-founder, however, didn't really leave much room for ...
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20 Linux Server Performance Tips (Part 2)
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
Use the 'noatime' option in the file system boot-up configuration file 'fstab'. Edit the 'fstab' file by choosing 'Etc.' These steps work the best if external storage is used. Linux limits the number of file descriptors that any one process may open. ...
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G-Slate Gets Rooted, Makes Tablet Even More Interesting
PCWorld
The root comes courtesy of XDA member "Chandon," and uses Linux to mount the system; this is because of the difficulties surrounding ext4 files and Windows, whereas Android and Linux share the filesystem. The root generally involves a lot (19 steps) of ...
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EVault Appliances Chosen to Replace Tape Backup
Enterprise Storage Forum
As noted in 3RP's news release, the company's file system backup, which formerly took 17 hours, now takes about 3.5 hours; the core banking application data, which previously took 37 hours to back up, now takes only three hours. ...
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SGI Lustre Provides End-to-End Coverage
Enterprise Storage Forum
In a press release on the company website, SGI (NASDAQ: SGI) announced that it is expanding its support of the Lustre file system to include Level 3 support, and now provides complete end-to-end coverage for its customers. Capable of supporting compute ...
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