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ZFS Disk Mirroring, Striping and RAID-Z

Posted on January 1, 2007 by Chris Samuel

This is the third in a series of tests (( the previous ones are ZFS on Linux Works! and ZFS versus XFS with Bonnie++ patched to use random data )), but this time we’re going to test out how it … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Google, Linux, Software, ZFS

ZFS versus XFS with Bonnie++ patched to use random data

Posted on January 1, 2007 by Chris Samuel

I’ve patched Bonnie++ (( it’s not ready for production use as it isn’t controlled by a command line switch and relies on /dev/urandom existing )) to use a block of data from /dev/urandom instead of all 0’s for its block … Continue reading →

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ZFS on Linux Works! (Update 3)

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Chris Samuel

Here’s my quick experience trying out the ZFS alpha release with write support. First I built and installed ZFS and then ran the run.sh script to run the FUSE process that the kernel will use to provide the ZFS file … Continue reading →

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First Alpha Release of ZFS Using FUSE for Linux with Write Support

Posted on December 30, 2006 by Chris Samuel

Ricardo Correia has announced on his blog about porting Sun Solaris’s ZFS to Linux using FUSE that he has an alpha release with working write support out: Performance sucks right now, but should improve before 0.4.0 final, when a multi-threaded … Continue reading →

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Linux FUSE Port of “Open” Solaris ZFS

Posted on July 15, 2006 by Chris Samuel

Because Sun unfortunately chose to create a new and GPL incompatible license for “Open” Solaris it is not legally possible to directly port their interesting ZFS filesystem code into the Linux kernel, so any Linux kernel implementation would need to … Continue reading →

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Old patch for Bonnie++ to use random data rather than 0’s

Posted on October 23, 2011 by Chris Samuel

Way back in 2007 I posted a blog about testing ZFS/FUSE with Bonnie++ using random data rather than 0’s, and I said: it’s not ready for production use as it isn’t controlled by a command line switch and relies on … Continue reading →

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SOLVED: Modern kernels fail to boot on old quad processor Pentium Pro server (Updated x3)

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Chris Samuel

I’ve got an ancient Olivetti Netstrada, a deskside server system with quad Pentium Pro 200MHz processors, 256MB RAM, dual power supplies and five 4GB SCSI drives. It’s been running Ubuntu 8.04 for ages and I found that with my partitioning … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-04-10

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Chris Samuel

For working audio in #Kubuntu 11.04 beta I had to do "aptitude purge pulseaudio" (as in most recent Ubuntu releases) # Early night to get a decent nights sleep, got to be at Box Hill hospital at 7am for an … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-10-24

Posted on October 24, 2010 by Chris Samuel

Looks like old imagery in @GoogleEarth isn't limited to UK, there's air photos of German cities from 1943 (inc. Berlin)! # Hmm, turns out this 1940's era imagery has been in Google Earth for about a year, oh well! 🙂 … Continue reading →

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-07-11

Posted on July 11, 2010 by Chris Samuel

RT @kattekrab: Linux Users Victoria meets 7pm Tues this week – http://luv.asn.au/2010/07/06 – Photographer's Workflow & L4Ka microkernel # Dear @googledownunder, stage 2 of the sign up for the YouTube partner program doesn't work under Firefox 3.6.7 on MacOSX # … Continue reading →

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