Episode 119: RapidDisk and Open Source Maintainership

What this episode covers

Katherine Druckman talks to Petros Koutoupis about maintaining RapidDisk, his open source RAM disk software. Site/Blog/Newsletter FaceBook Twitter YouTube MastodonSpecial Guest: Petros Koutoupis.Support Reality 2.0Links:GitHub - pkoutoupis/rapiddisk: An Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching kernel modules. Dynamically allocate RAM as block devices. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those drives locally or export those volumes across an NVMe Target network. — An Advanced Linux RAM Drive and Caching kernel modules. Dynamically allocate RAM as block devices. Use them as stand alone disk drives or even map them as caching nodes to slower local disk drives. Access those drives locally or export those volumes across an NVMe Target network. The Linux RAM Disk — The RAM disk has its significant advantages alongside some major disadvantages and despite those disadvantages, it still hasn't prevented it from being used in full production environments to even the local desktop; where it is often used as a temporary cache for various services and applications. The idea is nothing new and has been around for at least a few decades but as we increase our computing power and are capable of utilizing larger amounts of system memory, the concept becomes much more intriguing. RAM Drive Acceleration » ADMIN Magazine — Enable and share performant block devices across a network of compute nodes with the RapidDisk kernel RAM drive module. Jeff Geerling on Twitter: "lol for one of my #opensource projects, an #infosec employee at @EpicGames emailed me this questionnaire with over 100 questions and wants me to fill it out so they can use my freely available open source software. No. https://t.co/IcRgh12LWc" / Twitter