Entries tagged with 'ZFS'

Links of interest for 6 Jan 2010 - 26 Jan 2010:

Internal Memo: Sun CEO Jon Schwartz to Staff - I didn't noticed this (I got the original), but these guys did: a little hidden message in Jon's memo. Note how it doesn't apply to the whole memo. Seems consistent with his efforts as a [...]

Links of interest for 5 Nov 2009 - 2 Dec 2009:

J is for JVM: Why the ‘J’ in JRuby? | Engine Yard Blog - A good explanation on why the guys behind jRuby like the J, aka Java Virtual Machine, part of JRuby. Interesting performance figures too when compared to the standard Ruby, especially considering [...]

Links of interest for 17 Oct 2009 - 2 Nov 2009:

ZFS Deduplication : Jeff Bonwick’s Blog - Deduplication has just made its way into ZFS and Jeff provides a great explanation on what dedup it and why you need it, along with details on how to use it with ZFS.
ZFS for MacOS X - One [...]

I’ve just had a “how cool is this” moment. I was browsing through the zfs(1M) man page on OpenSolaris and spotted this excerpt…
vscan=on | off

Controls whether regular files should be scanned for
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Links of interest for 2 Sep 2009 - 24 Sep 2009:

IBM Throws Out Microsoft Office - Welcome to the party IBM. Sun did this years ago. 99% of people don't use half the functionality in MS Office anyway.
Linus calls Linux ‘bloated and huge’ - … and it's suffered on average a 2% decrease in performance [...]

Links of interest for 28 Aug 2009 - 1 Sep 2009:

Apache.org Compromised via stolen SSH keys - Best bit: "… we restored from a ZFS snapshot to a version of all our websites before any accounts were compromised." Now how's that for an advertisement for Solaris and ZFS?
Oracle is likely to sell sun’s hardware business [...]

Links of interest for 20 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009:

HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment - This is a brilliant display of some of the cool things you can do in HTML5 (Requires a browser that supports HTML5 like Firefox 3.5)
How To Hijack ‘Every iPhone In The World’ - Oooops. Just as well I [...]

Links of interest for 6 Apr 2009 - 3 May 2009:

New Time Slider features coming up in OpenSolaris 2009.06 - Some useful and impressive changes are coming to TimeSlider. Time Slider is definitely starting to eclipse OS X’s Time Machine in over-all functionality, and in my opinion, usefulness.
ZFS Encrypted Backup to S3 - Now [...]

Links of interest for 15 Mar 2009 - 24 Mar 2009:

Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center - Oooo, and it#039;s in a Sun Modular Datacentre (aka Project Blackbox) running Solaris 10 and ZFS.
The ‘IBM buys Sun’ story | Paul Murphy | ZDNet.com - Interesting point of view on what#039;s happening with these [...]

Links of interest for 13 Feb 2009 - 10 Mar 2009:

Speeding to a Halt - Wow!!! OpenSolaris shutdown taken from about 41 seconds to a mere 7. Brilliant work here by Dan Price.
Anatomy of Storage on the GRID - First Joyent, now MediaTemple. It’s great to see large, popular ISPs moving across to OpenSolaris [...]