Apr 29, 2026 • Vojtech Trefny• 2 min read A new upstream version of Libblockdev was released on Monday (April 27th) – 3.5.0. This release brings both new functions and a large number of bug fixes. Two new functions have been added to the bt…
Apr 16, 2026 • Vojtech Trefny• 12 min read For a couple of months now, we have been experimenting with using AI/LLM tools for code review for our projects under the storaged.org umbrella. We originally started with testing various tools for…
Feb 18, 2026 • Vojtech Trefny To control which devices LVM can work with, it was always possible to configure filtering in the devices section of the /etc/lvm/lvm.conf configuration file. But filtering devices this way was not very simple a…
Jan 30, 2026 • Tomáš Bžatek For a long time there was a need to modernize the UDisks’ way of ATA SMART data retrieval. The ageing libatasmart project went unmaintained over time yet there was no other alternative available. There was the sm…
Dec 15, 2025 • Vojtech Trefny The storage role always allowed creating and managing different storage technologies like LVM, LUKS encryption or MD RAID, but one technology seemed to be missing for a long time, and surprisingly, it was the m…
Oct 5, 2023 • Jan Pokorny This time we shall talk about Storage Role support of VDO. The abbreviation stands for Virtual Data Optimizer and that is exactly what it does. It reduces stored data size to save space. To be precise Storage Role
UDisks provides multiple tools and libraries for storage configuration and manipulation: Daemon providing DBus API for storage configuration and monitoring. UDisks DBus API is used for example by Cockpit for storage configuration or by Anac…
libblockdev is a C library supporting GObject introspection for manipulation of block devices. It has a plugin-based architecture where each technology (like LVM, Btrfs, MD RAID, Swap,…) is implemented in a separate plugin, possibly with mu…
Blivet is a free, open-source python module for configuring storage on Linux. It was originally written as the storage backend for Anaconda — the OS installer used by Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, among others. The main thing that ma…
The goal of this project is to provide a tiny library that would facilitate the common operations with sizes in bytes. Many projects need to work with sizes in bytes (be it sizes of storage space, memory,…) and all of them need to deal with…
Storaged Project is a collection of open-source storage management tools, libraries and APIs used for creating, managing and monitoring storage devices across the GNU/Linux ecosystem. The diagram below shows how our projects relate to each