Martin K. Petersen has been involved in Linux development since the early nineties. He has worked on PA-RISC and IA-64 Linux ports for HP as well as the XFS filesystem and the Altix kernel for SGI. Martin works in Oracle's Linux Engineering group where he focuses on enterprise storage technologies.
Data corruption is an
insidious problem in
storage. While there are
many forms of corruption,
there are also many ways
to prevent them. For
example, enterprise class
servers use error
checking and correcting
caches and memory to
protect against single
and double b...