[Haifux Lecture] Secure File Systems - Orr Dunkelman

2010-10-24 Thread Orr Dunkelman
Tomorrow, October 25th at 18:30, Haifux will gather to hear Orr Dunkelman talk about: Secure File Systems Abstract In this talk I shall cover two concepts related to protecting your information, cryptographic file system and steganographic file system. A cryptographic file system

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-05-05 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/28/05, Gil Freund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am planning on deploying VMware GSX on a Debian system. While I am happy with ReiserFS for most FS needs, I am wondering if it would make sense to user XFS or JFS for the VM image partition, as it seems both perform better with large

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-30 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: On 4/29/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps you didn't dig into the thing - it uses the linux system as a console OS, not as a host OS. the guest machines do not run on top of this linux system at all. all the device drivers that are

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-30 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/30/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: On 4/29/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] consider the differences between suzuky swift and suzuky baleno. the swift has all the functionality of the baleno - they both have 4 wheels, an

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 03:29:08AM +0300, guy keren wrote: the ESX product does not work on linux. it works side-by-side with linux (it is implemented as a set of kernel modules, and the host OS interacts with these modules directly, not via any host operating system). when you install ESX,

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 4/29/05, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: encouraged to take a look at the free Xen hypervisor instead. Windowssupport will be coming to Xen when Intel makes its VTx machinespublicly available. Is there a reason to expect this to happen or is it just a theoretical pre-condition? --A

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-29 Thread Muli Ben-Yehuda
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:00:48PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: On 4/29/05, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: encouraged to take a look at the free Xen hypervisor instead. Windows support will be coming to Xen when Intel makes its VTx machines publicly available. Is there a reason

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is GSX's architecture? GSX Server runs as an application in the host OS, ESX runs on baare metal. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org = To

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-29 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4/29/05, Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: encouraged to take a look at the free Xen hypervisor instead. Windows support will be coming to Xen when Intel makes its VTx machines publicly available. Is there a

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-29 Thread Gil Freund
On 29 Apr 2005 10:38:31 +, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is GSX's architecture? GSX Server runs as an application in the host OS, ESX runs on baare metal. Not quite. ESX uses a highly customized RedHat distribution. While

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-29 Thread guy keren
On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: On 29 Apr 2005 10:38:31 +, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is GSX's architecture? GSX Server runs as an application in the host OS, ESX runs on baare metal. Not quite. ESX uses a

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-29 Thread Gil Freund
On 4/29/05, guy keren [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 29 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: On 29 Apr 2005 10:38:31 +, Oleg Goldshmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Muli Ben-Yehuda [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is GSX's architecture? GSX Server runs as an application in the host

VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-28 Thread Gil Freund
Hi, I am planning on deploying VMware GSX on a Debian system. While I am happy with ReiserFS for most FS needs, I am wondering if it would make sense to user XFS or JFS for the VM image partition, as it seems both perform better with large files. On a side note, can anyone share information on

RE: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-28 Thread Tzahi Fadida
] On Behalf Of Gil Freund Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:56 PM To: IGLU Mailing list Subject: VMware GSX host file systems Hi, I am planning on deploying VMware GSX on a Debian system. While I am happy with ReiserFS for most FS needs, I am wondering if it would make sense to user XFS

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-28 Thread Gil Freund
Freund Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:56 PM To: IGLU Mailing list Subject: VMware GSX host file systems Hi, I am planning on deploying VMware GSX on a Debian system. While I am happy with ReiserFS for most FS needs, I am wondering if it would make sense to user XFS or JFS

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-28 Thread Marc A. Volovic
) and virtual tapes (large files) even without crashes. Regards, tzahi. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gil Freund Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 6:56 PM To: IGLU Mailing list Subject: VMware GSX host file systems Hi, I am

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-28 Thread Gil Freund
Subject: VMware GSX host file systems Hi, I am planning on deploying VMware GSX on a Debian system. While I am happy with ReiserFS for most FS needs, I am wondering if it would make sense to user XFS or JFS for the VM image partition, as it seems both perform better with large files

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-28 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:52:20PM +0300, Gil Freund wrote: On 4/28/05, Marc A. Volovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: XFS is optimized for sequential access performance. Just to clarify, do you mean batch type processing? Without knowing, I guess Marc meant audio/video, which is a large part of

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-28 Thread guy keren
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Gil Freund wrote: On a side note, can anyone share information on performance of the ESX product vs. the GSX product on Linux? Aside from memory over-committing, most ESX functions (such as vMotion) are not relevant to me. the ESX product does not work on linux. it

Re: VMware GSX host file systems

2005-04-28 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Yedidyah Bar-David wrote: On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 10:52:20PM +0300, Gil Freund wrote: Just to clarify, do you mean batch type processing? Without knowing, I guess Marc meant audio/video, which is a large part of SGI's users. Yes, indeed. Streaming, mainly video. Worst performance was on

Re: Recommendation for a compressed file systems

2004-03-02 Thread Matan Ziv-Av
On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for a compress FS? .. besides cloop. Did anyone ever try SquashFS? how is the performance comparing to cloop? Are there any Read/Write compressed filesystems for Linux? The two i mentioned above are read

Re: Recommendation for a compressed file systems

2004-03-02 Thread Dovix
http://e2compr.sourceforge.net/ I'd be happy to hear about your experiences, this is one of those things I really miss in modern OSes... (e.g. for ensuring /var or document directories are always compressed...) Shlomi Loubaton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations

Re: Recommendation for a compressed file systems

2004-03-02 Thread Gilad Ben-Yossef
On Tuesday 02 March 2004 03:39, Shlomi Loubaton wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations for a compress FS? .. besides cloop. Did anyone ever try SquashFS? how is the performance comparing to cloop? cramfs has proven very useful for me over time. It's also read only, of course. Gilad

Recommendation for a compressed file systems

2004-03-01 Thread Shlomi Loubaton
Does anyone have any recommendations for a compress FS? .. besides cloop. Did anyone ever try SquashFS? how is the performance comparing to cloop? Are there any Read/Write compressed filesystems for Linux? The two i mentioned above are read only. Regards, Shlomi Loubaton.

file systems

2002-07-25 Thread Shai Bentin
Can anyone explain the differences/ definitions of the following FS- ext2, ext3, jfs, xfs thanks

Re: file systems

2002-07-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Shai Bentin wrote: Can anyone explain the differences/ definitions of the following FS- ext2, ext3, jfs, xfs You forgot ReiserFS -- Tzafrir Cohen mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir

Re: file systems

2002-07-25 Thread Official Flamer/Cabal NON-Leader
Quoth Shai Bentin: Can anyone explain the differences/ definitions of the following FS- ext2, ext3, jfs, xfs Also reiserfs, xiafs, ext and minixfs. Ok, let's give it a try... Note - I am going to describe the filesystem, not remark on their qualities vis-a-vis each other. minixfs was the

Re: Distributed file systems ?

2001-02-03 Thread Marc A. Volovic
Oded Arbel wrote: Hi list. I'm looking into making all of out linux boxes share files, in a fast, secure and reliable manner, so I'm looking for a good distributed file system. the two DFSs that every linux distro comes with do not really fit the need, AFAIK - NFS has reliability

Distributed file systems ?

2001-02-01 Thread Oded Arbel
Hi list. I'm looking into making all of out linux boxes share files, in a fast, secure and reliable manner, so I'm looking for a good distributed file system. the two DFSs that every linux distro comes with do not really fit the need, AFAIK - NFS has reliability problems, and it has the anoying

Re: Distributed file systems ?

2001-02-01 Thread Gavrie Philipson
Oded Arbel wrote: rather live w/o. if you have any other suggestion for painlesly synching users, I'd love to hear about it - something that you wroked with , please), and Samba and security are two words that don't fit in the same sentence (oops - Just did it. sorry :-). Sure. Use LDAP.