Archives for February, 2010

ZFS Internals (part #9)

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY FIND HERE MAY BE INACCURATE, AND COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES, TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS, AND EVEN SPELLING ERRORS. From the MANUAL page: The zdb command is used by support engineers to diagnose failures and gather statistics. Since the ZFS file ...
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PS3 and Music, movies…

Wonderful combination: PS3, MacOSX and PS3 Media Server. I was looking for a solution for streaming movies, and music for my PS3 console, and PS3 Media Server just works. Without any previous conversion on the movie files, it converts on the fly, and we can watch the movies without any ...
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D tails…

Dtrace as any other programming language has many details, and i was bitten by one of them... Sometime ago i did a post about some strange values in the latency times provided by one script at NFSv3 provider wiki. Well, the culprit was the predicate, actually the predicate was not ...
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Fishworks RFE (2)

The Sun 7000 Storages have many old, old, ZFS replication problems... Some are ZFS old problems, and other old problems from fishworks itself... - We can not replicate per dataset, just entire projects. The only way to replicate one dataset, is create a project for each dataset... well, why i want ...
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Conspiracy Theory

Well, as many of you, i remember all the criticism Sun and the OpenSolaris project did receive on the start (the license, the company behind, etc). I think i'm not radical about Open Source software, i did use GPL, BSD, CDDL, and even proprietary software. I have my personal opinion ...
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