In this post I look at what fields are mandated by the SNIA XAM v1.0 specification and write a small Java application to retrieve their default values using the XAM Reference VIM and EMC’s Centera XAM VIM.
What is meant by a field in XAM? According to Section 3.1.5 of the XAM specification v1.0, Part [...]
Welcome to the new home of my blog. I have switched to WordPress 2.8 with the Atahualpha theme. I hope you like the clean simple layout and lines of this theme which, BTW, is garnishing great reviews from the blogging community.
I will probably leave the old blog in place at Blogger for a [...]
One of the key requirements for achieving long term data persistence is the ability to move data between archiving systems or, in the language of the SNIA XAM (eXtensible Access Method) specification, moving XSets between XSystems.
The XAM v1.0 specification supports this requirement by providing support for exporting and importing Xsets. It specifies the methods used [...]
I am experimenting with XAM (eXtensible Access Method), which is a storage standard developed by SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association and have developed a first prototype of a VIM (Vendor Interface Module) for the ext4 file system based on adding another namespace to the current extended file attributes support. Since other Linux developers might be [...]
Fedora 11 (Leonidas) ships with the nouveau nVidia graphics driver preloaded by default if a nVidia graphics card is detected at install time. Previous versions of Fedora used the older X.Org nv driver.
The nouveau project aims at producing Open Source 3D drivers for nVidia graphics cards. According to the nouveau project Wiki
2D-support is in [...]