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Bulletin Board (Forum ZFS, Storage, etc)…

Antes tarde do que nunca... é um ditado bem popular. Tenho alguns projetos pessoais como aplicativos de código aberto, e recentemente meu livro sobre ZFS, e estava faltando um canal 'oficial' para tratar destes assuntos com os usuários destes projetos, e possivelmente desenvolvedores que queiram participar também. Com o ...
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Intel Specification Update

In October 1, 2010, Intel released a document that describes design defects, known errors, and all the stuff that can make a sysadmin's life a pain. It was an specification update for the Intel 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (e1000 driver for most *nix implementations). This ethernet controller is ...
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Solaris 11

Hello there... As many of you already know, a new version of Solaris Operating System is available: Solaris 11 Express. Seems like the Solaris 11 will be released next year, but i really don't know if that is the case neither the diff between Solaris 11 Express and Solaris 11. From what ...
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I would like to understand…

Maybe if i could understand the Oracle's mind, i could learn how to make money. I think that is the key in this whole Oracle/Sun situation: Java, Dtrace 1, 2, 3, 4, and ZFS creators did leave the company. Why someone would buy a technology company, with so many ...
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Disksort vs Max_Pending

DO NOT TRY IT IN PRODUCTION. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! Good news... here you can get a little script to enable, disable, and check the disksort flag on your disks (not persistent after reboot, take a look on my other post to a link for how to do it). Take ...
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Elevator Algorithm II

DO NOT TRY IT IN PRODUCTION. USE AT YOUR OWN RISK! In my last post i did write about some issues related with disksort: 1) Performance (Latency) 2) Consistency In my D Script i'm printing the buf sector when the sd driver receives it. So, without sorting. That's important because i'm ...
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