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		<title>New updates: RapidDisk and RapidCache Stable release 2.0.1b and more.</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=469</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Late last week I 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. More details can be read here: www.rapiddisk.org I have also been working on an ARM based Linux distribution called RapidDisk LX which brings RapidDisk functionality as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Some updates: New RapidDisk website, release, patches and more.</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=466</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkoutoupis</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, it has been quite some time since I posted an update here. A lot of new and exciting things have been happening with the RapidDisk project. For instance, there is now a new dedicated project website located at www.rapiddisk.org. This new website has been using the RapidDisk Google+ page as the venue for latest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: RapidDisk (rxdsk) 1.3.1b Stable release</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=462</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:14:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkoutoupis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=462</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just released RapidDisk version 1.3.1b. The changelog documents the following changes: Added check in 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&#8217;t accidentally create a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: Patch for RapidDisk (rxdsk) 1.3 to build for 2.6.18</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=458</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Nov 2011 20:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkoutoupis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=458</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. To apply the patch, just navigate to the module/drivers/block path from the root of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: RapidDisk (rxdsk) 1.3b Stable release</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=453</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:44:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkoutoupis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=453</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I just released RapidDisk version 1.3b. The changelog documents the following changes: Added new feature to archive/restore an rxd volume to/from a zlib compressed data file (many thanks to Simon Ball for suggesting a similar feature). Added discard support. Added an ioctl to handle an invalid query sent by later versions of udev that correspond [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: Patch for RapidDisk (rxdsk) 1.2 to build for 2.6.18 and more</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=446</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkoutoupis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. That is, if you are still using Red Hat or CentOS 5.x. To apply the patch, just navigate to the module/drivers/block path from the root of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: RapidDisk (rxdsk) 1.2b Stable release</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=442</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 21:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkoutoupis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=442</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: RapidDisk (rxdsk) 1.1b Stable release</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=435</link>
		<comments>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=435#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Aug 2011 03:19:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkoutoupis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=435</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. Note - So far this has only been tested and seen as fully [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: RapidDisk (rxdsk) 1.0b Stable release</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=425</link>
		<comments>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=425#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jul 2011 14:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkoutoupis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=425</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Announcement: SCSITrace patches released for RHEL 6.</title>
		<link>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=410</link>
		<comments>http://blog.petroskoutoupis.com/?p=410#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2011 20:49:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>pkoutoupis</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.unovyx.com/?p=410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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 &#38; AMD64/Intel64 architectures. You can download the files here. The project is still in [...]]]></description>
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