Device Drivers, Part 15: Disk on RAM — Playing with Block Drivers
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, experiments with a dummy hard disk on RAM to demonstrate how block drivers work. After a delicious lunch, theory makes the…
Device Drivers, Part 14: A Dive Inside the Hard Disk for Understanding Partitions
This article, which is part of the series on Linux device drivers, takes you on a tour inside a hard disk. “Doesn’t it sound like a mechanical engineering subject: The design of the…
Working with MTD Devices
This article shows how kernel and application developers (in C) can make use of MTD in Linux. MTD (Memory Technology Devices) are NAND/NOR-based flash memory chips used for storing non-volatile data like boot…
Storage Management using Openfiler, Part 2
The first part of this series gave readers step-by-step instructions to build Openfiler from scratch. This second part covers two additional important features of Openfiler: bonded interfaces and software RAID. We also have…
May 22, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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May 21, 2013
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