Blog entries from Petros Koutoupis

Updates to my Linux RAM disk module

Petros Koutoupis — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 11:16:54 +0100

In my last post I had posted a link to a *.tar.gz file containing the source code to both a very generic Linux RAM disk module that I wrote for the Linux 2.6.26.x kernel (was tested on Fedora 8 and Debian 5.0.1) and the source to a single purpose user binary that obtains the total device block count (no. of sectors) via an ioctl() and also performs some write(), lseek() and read() operations.This way, if the user were to monitor the /var/log/messages file they would see exactly where the proRead More...

On the topic of Linux RAM Disks.

Petros Koutoupis — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 13:10:03 +0100

On my primary blog I have just finished posting an entry on my latest article to be published in the 4/2009 issue of Linux+ Magazine, The Linux RAM Disk. My last article written for the same periodical has just hit the news stands earlier this month (issue 3/2009, Linux Storage Management).

While on the topic of RAM disks, I wish to share the following from the same post:

While not part of the original article I also decided to write a generic RAM disk block device module which caRead More...

Counting the days.

Petros Koutoupis — Wed, 27 May 2009 07:00:00 +0100

As I wait for the next release of Fedora in 6 days, recently I have been spending some time away from GNU/Linux and playing with OpenSolaris UNIX. And might I add that it is a very impressive distribution. From the implementation of ZFS (and the Time Slider feature in GNOME) to Dtrace along with some other nice features.

I have worked with Solaris for many years and while Sun has always been ahead of its time with features and functionality, they always lacked in usability over the GUI.Read More...