Archive for the ‘Operating Systems’ Category
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008
Yes, it has a reason that ZFS is not yet marked stable on FreeBSD! I had to learn the hard lesson today.
Under very high load and many concurrent read requests (I set up the company's mail server with ZFS and root from ZFS), the two disks in the Raid array ...
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Saturday, May 10th, 2008
Yesterday I set up one of our new storage machines for testing: Dell 2950, Quad Xeon, 8GB, 6x750 GB HDD. I installed FreeBSD 7 with ZFS (following up this article). Firstly it seemed to be a bit tricky, because the PERC/6i controller configuration is -- sorry -- crap from the ...
Posted in BSD, Storage, Work | 2 Comments »
Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Wasn't it annoying that FreeBSD never had a volume manager which allowed to resize volumes including the contained filesystem on the fly? Well, it was possible to use gvinum in conjunction with UFS' growfs tool to make filesystems bigger at least. But that's not as flexible as Solaris' ZFS. Moreover, ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
As the company I work with has to store many media files, backups, rapidly changing documents and so on, they used to run a NetworkAppliance FAS2020 storage machine, which is quite neat. Unfortunately, the current setup does not allow to scale the volumes any more. So we needed to find ...
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Thursday, April 24th, 2008
Generally it is quite easy to sync calendars between one Mac and a Nokia N95 (or any other model). All you need is iSync and the Nokia iSync Plugin. The setup is quite straight-forward. But as the computers store the synchronisation information, conflicts are very likely to happen. So we ...
Posted in Mac OS, Software | 1 Comment »
Thursday, April 24th, 2008
To be honest, three months ago I could not imagine that I would fall in love with Mac OS and/or Apple's products. I considered them way too expensive and did not understand the hype, because technically they do not differ much (any more) from i386 hardware. But as my new ...
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