Introduction Over time, storage devices can acquire uncorrectable media errors often called “bad blocks”. A bad block is a part of a storage media that is either inaccessible or unwritable due to a permanent physical damage. In case of memory mapped I/O, if a process tries to access …

PMEM containers Our goal for the libpmemobj C++ bindings is to create a friendly and less error prone API for persistent memory programming. Even with persistent memory pool allocators, convenient interface for creating and managing transactions, auto-snapshotting class templates and smart …

[Note: pmem::obj::array<> is no longer experimental. The rest of the information in this blog post is still accurate.] Introduction Until now, our C++ bindings were missing one important component - persistent containers. In 1.5 release we have introduced the first one - pmem::obj::array. This …

We’ve been very quiet on this blog as of late, mostly because of the amount of work that we needed to put into our very ambitiously planned 1.5 release. But we’ve made it, and there’s finally time to get back to discussing the technical minutiae of our work. In this post, we will …

When we, the PMDK team, want to check performance of our library, either to see if there was any regression or if our tweaks did a good job, we run benchmarks. One of them is FIO. It helps us simulate synthetic traffic of reads and writes to a pmem device. In this blog post I will introduce this …