[PATCH 1/7] aoe: support more AoE addresses with dynamic block device minor numbers

The ATA over Ethernet protocol uses a major (shelf) and minor (slot) address to identify a particular storage target. These changes remove an artificial limitation the aoe driver imposes on the use of AoE addresses. For example, without these ...

Message posted on the October 1st, 2012 - 10:00 PM ET

H&R Block Honored with CIO 100 Award from CIO Magazine, Leverages Wyse Cloud Client Computing to Simplify Computing Infrastructure

IDG's CIO magazine today announced H&R Block (NYSE:HRB) as a recipient of the 2011 CIO 100. The 24th annual award program recognizes organizations around the world that exemplify the highest level of operational ...

Press published on the June 1st, 2011 - 6:00 AM ET

Lenovo Signs on to Cloud-Based Mobile Broadband as Macheen Inc.’s Latest Device Partner

Enhanced Platform Capabilities, Expanding International Footprint Cement Macheen’s Lead In Enabling New Connectivity Models.

Press published on the June 10th, 2012 - 10:01 PM ET

Aruba Fields an Impenetrable Network Based on Its Mobile Virtual Enterprise (MOVE) Architecture at Black Hat USA 2011

Access leader provides Black Hat attendees with three separate networks – PSK, PEAP with user self-registration and EAP-TLS with Mobile Device Access Control (MDAC) for iOS devices.

Press published on the August 10th, 2011 - 6:00 AM ET

Passkey’s GroupMAX™ Technology Embraced as the Standard Hotel Booking Tool in the UK, Poised for Further Global Reach

Passkey’s GroupMAX hotel booking technology is being used by major UK cities to produce better events and drive more economic value to their local communities.

Press published on the November 30th, 2012 - 1:00 AM ET

Imation Expands Line of High-Capacity, High-Security, Hardware Encrypted USB Hard Drives

Imation meets the rising need for secure data portability up to 1 TB, with comprehensive device management, remote kill and biometric authentication option.

Press published on the August 14th, 2012 - 5:00 AM ET

Archos 604 digital player test

Just after this summer of 2006, the French multimedia device maker Archos has released their new range of audio/video players, series 4. We have therefore taken the opportunity to test one of the new models on offer, the Archos 604. We will see in ...

Review published on the October 25th, 2006 - 6:00 PM ET

Verizon to distribute Palm Pre Plus and Pixi Plus Smartphone’s

Like last year, Palm has unveiled new Smartphone models at the CES in Las Vegas - although these are more like evolutions to existing models, with this being the release of a Plus version. Verizon will be distributing these phones from the second ...

News published on the January 8th, 2010 - 11:26 AM ET

How do I detect a block device is being used as swap inside its request queue handler?

Dear Linus Torvalds et al, I am having some trouble with an out of tree module for a virtual block device driver. I need to disable the direct reclaim path when the device is used as swap. I cannot see a way to detect that the device is being used ...

Message posted on the April 16th, 2012 - 6:40 AM ET

[RFC PATCH] block: Add new generic block device naming interface

From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com> Currently, when adding a new block device driver, if grub support is needed, then grub needs to be modified to know about this new driver. See this thread: ...

Message posted on the April 25th, 2013 - 4:30 PM ET

[PATCH] Track block device users that created dirty pages

Hi Here I'm sending a patch to change block device buffer flush semantics: only processes that created some dirty data do buffer flush on close. Mikulas Track block device users that created dirty pages This patch changes the block device ...

Message posted on the March 29th, 2013 - 11:10 AM ET

Informing block device about deleted file.

Hi All, I am working on a block device driver for flash device. I have implemented Flash Translation Layer (FTL) needed for flash device. On this block device I create ext2 file system and then mount it like any block device. The flash device has ...

Message posted on the January 31st, 2010 - 11:00 PM ET

Bug#702256: ITP: enhanceio -- dynamic block device cache for Linux

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Package name: enhanceio Version: 0+git20130227-1 Upstream Author: STEC, Inc URL: https://github.com/stec-inc/EnhanceIO License: GPL-2 Description: dynamic block device ...

Message posted on the March 4th, 2013 - 10:30 AM ET

Bug#530909: Wrong message about device being busy

I filed this bug against parted-udeb and didn't realize this meant it wouldn't show up on debian-boot. This is definitely something for debian-boot (not sure if it's a parted, partman or another problem), so here again: With the daily image I ...

Message posted on the October 12th, 2009 - 4:50 PM ET

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