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I would like to announce the release of RapidDisk 2.2.1. You can clone/pull it from the rxdsk-2.x git repo. It includes a minor bug fix and some other cosmetic updates. The major part of this release is the addition of attaching, mapping, archiving and restoring functionality into the pyRxAdm graphical wrapper.

I just release RapidDisk 2.2b which can now be pulled from the rxdsk-2.x git repo. Also the tarball has been added to the Sourceforge project page.

First and foremost, RapidDisk 2.1b is now released and available. Second, the RapidDisk LX project is now listed as part of the Open Invention Network. Third, I just uploaded an initial RapidDisk LX 1.0 alpha release image to the project website.

Just released 2.0.1b. With a bug fix (bug #5) in the rxadm admin tool and a few cleanup changes in some of the module print messages. I will upload a tarball of this release on Sourceforge by the end of this weekend.

It is here! The 2.0 beta release of RapidDisk which introduces the new RapidCache module. The purpose of RapidCache is to map a RapidDisk volume to a separate physical volume as a Write-Through and Read-Through caching node.

I just finished creating, testing and uploading a patch for the rxdsk 1.4 module to build on 2.6.18 kernels (for those still using Red Hat and CentOS 5.x). Another update is that I posted some new performance data on the performance page.

I know I am pushing these updates out fairly quick but I wanted to announce that I just released version 1.4 with 2 new feature enhancements corresponding to bugs #2 and #4 on the http://bugs.rapiddisk.org bug tracker. Read more here: https://plus.google.com/u/0/116869691296916480289/posts

Well, I have a lot of updates to share for this project. First and foremost, I now have a dedicated domain for the project at http://www.rapiddisk.org. This is a Wiki site documenting everything that I can think of relating to the project in a nice and organized manner. This site also includes a bug tracker: http://bugs.rapiddisk.org for bugs, feature requests and or documentation/website errors. I have also decided to use this Google+ Page as the official blog for the project from this point on. Some other changes include...

I just released RapidDisk version 1.3.1b. I added check in the management utility to make sure that rxdsk node is present before archiving and restoring compressed/ decompressed images. This is a very minor update and is mostly for the restoration portion of the utility so we just don’t accidentally create a file named /dev/rxd[x] instead of using an actual rxdsk volume, if that volume is not present on the system.

As promised in the 1.3b release, I just uploaded a patch for RapidDisk 1.3 to be able to build and install the module on the older 2.6.18 Linux kernel. That is, if you are still using Red Hat or CentOS 5.x.

I just released RapidDisk version 1.3b. Within the next week I will post a patch of 1.3 for the Linux 2.6.18 kernel. You can read more about this on the project’s wiki page. Also, just a reminder to all those interested, recently I created a Google+ page for the project, if you wish to stay posted on the latest news of this open source project.

Unrelated to the upcoming 1.3 release, I just uploaded a patch for RapidDisk 1.2 to be able to build and install the module on the older 2.6.18 Linux kernel. Also, I wanted to post that I created a Google+ page for the project, for those who are interesting in staying posted about the latest news on the open source project

I am writing to announce the update release of my Linux RAM disk kernel module RapidDisk (rxdsk). It is currently at a stable 1.2b release with optimizations to the configuring of the request queue of each rxd block device and also with added checks for the module to build from kernels 2.6.32 all the way to the latest (currently 3.0.3); this includes the addressing of the deprecated command blk_queue_ordered() found in 2.6.37 and later. More information can be found at http://rxdsk.petroskoutoupis.com.

I am writing to announce the update release of my Linux RAM disk kernel module RapidDisk (rxdsk). It is currently at a stable 1.1b release with added support for dynamic resizing of attached rxdsk volumes. More information can be found at http://rxdsk.petroskoutoupis.com.

I am writing to announce the release of my Linux RAM disk kernel module. Yes, the Linux kernel has the brd module already integrated into it, and also the zram module it the staging tree. And yes, you can instead utilize ramfs or tmpfs for RAM based file systems. But RapidDisk or rxdsk is a bit different.

Just a quick update. New patches have been uploaded to the project site of the SCSI Bus Analyzer Module (SCSITrace) on Sourceforge.net. These patches are for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and cover the following kernels: 2.6.32-71.el6 and 2.6.32-71.18.1.el6 on x86 & AMD64/Intel64 architectures.

I was excited to see that the Linux From Scratch (hereafter, LFS) project just released a new and stable documentation “build” for version 6.7 this past September. I have known about the LFS project for many years but I didn’t start experimenting with it until not too long ago.

Every now and then, when surfing the blogosphere, I come across waves after waves of postings stating how “Linux needs to rely less on the CLI” or “Windows is perfect for basic users because everything can be done with the GUI”…blah, blah, blah. In fact it was this article that prompted this posting. It gets tiring reading the same things over and over again, but it hasn’t stopped me from adding my 2 cents.

Last week, I came across a tutorial about tweaking a specific parameter in the Linux virtual memory subsystem. So I figured that I would share all of the optimizations that I usually go through in a new installation of Linux.

Amazing. Oracle acquires all of Sun’s intellectual property including their open source projects. They kill off OpenSolaris while still leaving other projects in a state of limbo. One possibly being VirtualBox.