JFS is a journaling file system originally developed by IBM. It's considered to be mature and stable but it's not commonly found on Linux servers. I was curious to see what it would take to install it and later benchmark it. I'll cover the installation here and will do a …

Tomb makes managing encrypted volumes easy - in fact very easy. This is a must if you're like me and want to store sensitive stuff on the cloud.

You can download Tomb from here.

1. Install some dependencies:

yum install ncurses-devel cryptsetup zsh gettext -y
yum install http://pkgs.repoforge.org …