Archive for September 2012

Summary:  DRBD provides a nifty way of allowing a “RAID when available” setup, which offers more flexibility then MDADM.  When in “RAID” mode, DRBD performs about 10% slower then MDADM, but provides near SSD performance when DRBD is not mirroring.  Importantly you don’t need to have the USB drive connected all the time, so its…

I recently acquired a Samsung CLX-3185FN colour laser MFC. Although the device claims to work with Linux, it is a bit of a mixed bag.  Below are my views and outcomes of lessons learned thus far. Background and Review FWIW I use Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, and am only interested in connecting the device across a…