Free storage software for linux

NASLite is a collection of single floppy disk based Network Attached Storage (NAS) Server Operating Systems designed to transform a basic computer into a dedicated file server.
NASLite v1.x is intended primarily for use in a small business or home office network. By design, NASLite v1.x is a community file server and does not support features such as user management , the ability to join domains or disk quotas. However, it is very easy to set-up and use.
Main features:
- Easy to operate and to administer
- Inexpensive to run and maintain
- Remote administration through TELNET
- Simple to use configuration menu
- Stable and reliable
- BIOS independent fixed disk drive support
- S.M.A.R.T. support
- Large partition and file support
- Low hardware requirements
- Wide range of PCI hardware support
Enhancements:
- This release adds an enhanced administration utility, a S.M.A.R.T. status enabling/disabling option, and forced manual filesystem checks.

NicE Desktop is a Debian-based, live Linux distribution. Being a live distribution, it runs from portable storage, such as a CD/DVD or USB flash drive. This operating system can be run in both text mode and graphical mode.

NicE Desktop comes with many programs for both recreational and administrative purposes. Its main goals are to be useful and entertaining while maintaining user-friendliness, as well as to provide a "complete" temporary operating system for any PC user.

Tie::OffsetArray can tie one array to another, with index offset.

SYNOPSIS

use Tie::OffsetArray;

tie @a, Tie::OffsetArray, 1, @b; # offset=1; use given array.

tie @c, Tie::OffsetArray, 2; # use anonymous array.

$a[0] = x; # assign to $b[1];

tied(@a)->array->[0] = y; # assign to $b[0].

When tied to this class, an arrays behavior is completely normal. For its internal storage, it uses another array, either one supplied by the caller, or a new anonymous one. Accesses to the tied array are mapped down to the storage array by offsetting the index by some constant amount.

A special method on the tied object returns a reference to the storage array, so that the elements below the offset can be accessed. This is particularly useful if the storage array was not supplied by the caller.

sc101-nbd allows Linux to access a Netgear SC101 storage device as a block device, without requiring a new kernel module.
Netgear Storage Central 101 (sc101) is an IP based block storage device.
Netgear ships a clustered filesystem with the product (perhaps based on DataPlow SFS) which allows multiple Windows client machines to concurrently mount and read/write directly to the device; it is a SAN rather than a NAS device.
There is no protocol documentation provided, nor any driver support for operating systems other than Windows.
This software allows Linux to access the the sc101 as a block device, without requiring a new kernel module.
It achieves this by translating between the kernels existing NBD protocol and the reverse engineered protocol used by the sc101 (I call it PSAN, perhaps incorrectly).
On top of the NBD devices you can run RAID, LVM, and any existing filesystems (ext2/3, ocfs2, etc).
The resulting storage area is not interoperable with existing Windows clients.
It is unknown whether this software is compatible with the (unreleased) sc101t or other Zetera partnered devices.
Enhancements:
- This has been tested on RHEL/CentOS 4.x and Ubuntu 7.04.

Secure Storage service for the gLite middleware project provides users with a set of tools to store in a secure way and in an encrypted format confidential data (e.g. medical or financial data) on the grid storage elements.
The data stored using the tools provided will be accessible and readable only by authorized users. Moreover, it solves the insider abuse problem preventing also the administrators of the storage elements to access the confidential data in a clear format.
The service has been designed and developed for the grid Middleware of the EGEE infrastructure, gLite, in the context of the TriGrid VL Project.
Secure Storage documentation generated with Doxygen are available.
Enhancements:
- A minor bug was fixed.

Skeleton Engine for MySQL is a full framework to plug in a new storage engine. Comes with prebuild autoconf files, and a full framework to plug in your own design.

The AWS, HTTP, Memcache, Nitro, PBXT, and many other engines were put together from the skeleton engine.

To install, grab a copy of the mysql source code and run this:
./configure --with-mysql=/home/brian/mysql-5.1/ --libdir=/usr/local/lib/mysql/
make install

And then inside of MySQL:

mysql> INSTALL PLUGIN skeleton SONAME libskeleton_engine.so;

mysql> CREATE TABLE `d` (`a` varchar(125), b text, primary key(a)) ENGINE=skeleton DEFAULT
CHARSET=latin1;
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

You will probably need to edit the Makefile.am in the src/ tree if you want to build on anything other then Linux (and the Makefile assumes that the server was not compiled for debug).

Optar stands for OPTical ARchiver. This project is a codec for encoding data on paper. Optar fits 200kB on an A4 page, then you print it with a laser printer. If you want to read the recording, scan it with a scanner and feed into the decoder program.

A practical level of reliability is ensured using forward error correction code (FEC). Automated processing of page batches facilitates storage of files larger than 200kB.

JWhoisServer project is a small, fast, and highly configurable RFC 3912 compliant whois server written in Java and using RDBMS as a storage engine.