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Everyone is talking about Big Data, and this popular technology has implications up and down the storage stack. This new series will look at Big Data from each end of the spectrum -- from data extraction to the hardware needed to analyze the data, with  OS, file systems and other system software in the middle.
Tags : storage hardware, file system, big data, Data Analytics

The results of our Linux fsck testing were posted last month. Now it's time to address the big questions that remain: What do the results tell us, what do they mean, and is the performance expected?
Tags : Linux, file system, fsck, scalability

Our Linux file system Fsck testing is finally complete. Just how bad is the Linux file system scaling problem?
Tags : Linux, file system, fsck, scalability

The vendors would not deliver the promised hardware for  our real-world testing. We ponder why and issue a challenge.
Tags : Linux, RAID, file system, Storage, xfs, fsck

Thanks to many years of government investment, most of the major storage developments have occurred in the United States. With few ground-breaking changes on the horizon, will the United States hold the lead or will another nation take the reins?
Tags : government, RAID, standards, storage technologies, file system, Storage

The storage industry continues to make the same mistakes over and over again, and enterprises continue to take vendors' bold statements as facts.  Henry Newman ponders why enterprises continue to believe the current evolutionary file system path will meet our needs today and in the future and cost nothing.
Tags : file system, Storage

Our examination of the ever-growing Linux file system scaling problem continues. In part 2 of our State of File Systems Technology series, Jeff Layton describes the approach and specs to be used in running  the fsck wall clock time  benchmark/test.
Tags : testing, Dell, RAID, file system, xfs, fsck

Wondering why your ext 3/4 maxes out at five disk drives and what you can do about? Henry Newman and Jeff Layton are going under the hood in this four-part series to determine what is at the heart of the ever-growing file system scaling problem. This installment explains the problem and what their testing and evaluation process will be.
Tags : RAID, file system, big data, Storage, xfs

Amid speculation about the fate of the open-source file system, Oracle has vowed that it has an "unwavering commitment to Lustre."
Tags : Oracle, ZFS, Lustre, file system, open-source

Storage startup Gluster has married open source software with commodity hardware to solve the problem of file system scalability.
Tags : open source, file system

Can it compete with other scale-out NAS boxes sold into the same markets?
Tags : storage networking, networked storage, file system