The developers of ZFS are a funny bunch of people. You can tell that by watching the “ZFS: The Next Word” talk, meeting them on conferences, reading their blogs or their comments on mailing lists.
And there are also some funny parts in the ZFS source code, too. In fact …
When looking at the mails and comments I get about my ZFS optimization and my RAID-Greed posts, the same type of questions tend to pop up over and over again. Here’s an example from a reader email: “I was reading about ZFS on your blog and you mention …
A few weeks ago, we discussed using DTrace for automatically updating media servers when you upload new content.
Yesterday though, I discovered that my D script didn’t work any more. I uploaded new songs to my home server, and expected the music daemon to re-scan the music directory, but …
This is a long article, but I hope you’ll still find it interesting to read. Let me know if you want me to break down future long articles into multiple parts instead.
One of the most frequently asked questions around ZFS is: “How can I improve ZFS performance?”.
This …
During OSDevCon 2009 in Dresden (no link, osdevcon.org no longer exists), I had the honor to present on some lessons learned while putting together a ZFS Automatic-Scrubbing SMF service.
Today, Deirdre was so kind to publish the video recording of my presentation on The Oracle Solaris Video Blog (no …
Since November 1st, 2009, when ZFS Deduplication was integrated into OpenSolaris (no link, genunix.org no longer exists), a lot has happened: We learned how it worked, people got to play with it, used it in production and it became part of the Oracle Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System …
Firefox 3.6 has introduced a new feature (that was in Beta for some time): Personas.
What’s a Persona? From Firefox’ own description: Personas are easy-to-use themes that let you personalize the look of your Firefox There’s a very nicely done video on the Firefox Personas site to …
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