This is probably the best ARM-based hobbyist board for servers and desktop replacements I've seen—it supports SATA and PCIe out of the box

Refer to this when setting up volume labels--more mnemonic than UUIDs

" ... I recently purchased a new toy, an Intel X25-M SSD, and when I was setting it up initially, I decided I wanted to make sure the file system was aligned on an erase block boundary. This is a generally considered to be a Very Good Thing to do for most SSD’s available today, ..." Quick-and-dirty guide to stripe size alignment. Useful for (striped, non-1) RAID setups as well.

A relatively feature-less bootloader presented as an alternative for grub (and mostly grub2)

Souped-up, relatively affordable version of the Beagleboard.

Short overview of two new filesystems for Linux. NiLFS is essentially identical to NetBSD's logfs--and since it's available for NetBSD as well, I wonder if there's a connection.

ExoFS is a complex associative object-based filesystem that 'emulates' a standard Unix file hierarchy.

" ... These pages were originally written to address a nagging problem which bothered many people using Linux. It has to do with the default behaviour of the BackSpace and Delete keys, which did not behave as expected. The goal of this document was and still is to make [<---] (i.e. the backspace-key on your keyboard) to erase to the left, and make [Delete](i.e. the delete-key) erase under the cursor. It seems all Linux distributions I am aware of have effectively dealt with the issue by now ... " all distributions? No, one remains, defiantly ignoring the issue.

" ... signalfd() creates a file descriptor that can be used to accept signals targeted at the caller. This provides an alternative to the use of a signal handler or sigwaitinfo(2), and has the advantage that the file descriptor may be monitored by select(2), poll(2), and epoll(7) .. "

" ... Now consider the timerfd() system call, which was added to the 2.6.22 kernel. The purpose of this call is to allow an application to obtain a file descriptor to use with timer events, eliminating the need to use signals ... "

" ... This the Chiron Filesystem. It is a Fuse based filesystem. It's main purpose is to guarantee filesystem availability using replication. But it isn't a RAID implementation. RAID replicates DEVICES not FILESYSTEMS. .. " -- seems to offer fs-level replication, but again, the details on recovery after volumes have gone out of sync are scarce. It looks like the right idea with the wrong execution.

" ... Gluster simplifies the task of storing massive amounts of unstructured data. GlusterFS is an open source clustered file system that runs on commodity hardware, delivering greater scalability and performance at a fraction of the cost of conventional storage. ... " -- other than that, they do seem to offer fs-level data replication, although it's entirely unclear how it's implemented.

Mainboard usable as a home router system

Site that sells a version of the SheevaPlug that's usable in most continental European wall outlets.

Site that sells a version of the SheevaPlug that's usable in most continental European wall outlets.