Archive for February, 2007

SMART to Predict Disk Failures

February 20th, 2007

Here we briefly introduce an efficient open source tool, which can help you to get hints whether your disk is about to break soon or not. A project called S.M.A.R.T monitoring tools is hosted in sourceforge, the software runs on multiple platforms and might be worth a look.
Anil Gupta discusses in his blog about Google’s […]

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Erasure Coding for Reliable Storage

February 9th, 2007

In this article we give a brief introduction to erasure coding, give few relevant pointers to tutorials and current solutions both on commercial and in free open source technologies.
Erasure codes can be used to construct very reliable storage. The coding can be used to provide redundancy to protect from loosing data when storage components become […]

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