Entries tagged with 'ZFS'

Links of interest for 1 Jul 2008 - 30 Jul 2008:

Direct Mounting of Files - As of snv_91, you no longer need lofi to mount a filesystem image, like an ISO. You can now call mount(1M) as you would a normal filesystem.
DTrace IP Provider - Cool. The first step of implementing TCP/IP DTrace providers [...]

Links of interest for 19 May 2008 - 19 Jun 2008:

June 2008 | TOP500 Supercomputing Sites - Woohoo!!! Sun are finally back in the top 10.
Anything But a Flash in the Pan - Sun's shares may be tanking at the moment, but you've got to read this to see where Sun is going. Once [...]

Links of interest for 30 Apr 2008 - 14 May 2008:

Brussels: Uniform Interface to Driver Administration Through dladm(1m) - Finally!!! A unified simple and easy way to configure network interface settings like auto-neg, duplex, mtu etc on Solaris. Currently only in OpenSolaris and Nevada though.
OpenSolaris: What Ubuntu wants to be when it grows up [...]

OpenSolaris 2008.05, aka “Project Indiana” will be officially released to the world later today (US time), but it’s already available now for download from it’s dedicated site - www.opensolaris.com.
For the uninitiated, I’ll quote the OpenSolaris docs…

Links of interest for 21 Mar 2008 - 25 Mar 2008:

Paper Enigma Machine - What a brilliant idea, and a great teaching tool too.
Sun turns to lasers to speed up computer chips - Now this would be brilliant if Sun research proves to be a success. Sun's continually proving it is light years (excuse [...]

Links of interest for 20 Feb 2008 - 1 Mar 2008:

MySQL InnoDB Performance Tuning for the Solaris 10 OS - It's not been long since the finalisation of Sun's acquisition of MySQL and performance tuning docs are already starting to come to light.
Network in a Box (Creating real network on your laptop) - Create a [...]

Links of interest for 13 Jan 2008 - 27 Jan 2008:

Transactional ZFS Upgrades on Nexenta - This is pretty impressive usage of ZFS. Once Solaris officially supports ZFS boot, this is a fantastic feature that could be added to patching and live upgrade.
Mystery web infection grows, but cause remains elusive - Pity no one seems [...]

Links of interest for 27 Nov 2007 - 11 Jan 2008:

2008 Technology of the Year Awards: Storage - And the award for Best Filesystem goes to… ZFS, naturally. No other filesystem has been as innovative, with such wide spread adoption, recently.
Official ZFS on OS X Page - Your source for bleeding edge ZFS on [...]

You’ve upgraded to OS X Leopard, played with Time Machine, tweaked things to your heart’s content and now you want to play with something else cool you’ve heard has made it’s way into OS X - ZFS.
Unfortunately, Apple have only bundled read-only support for ZFS to date, but we’ll be changing that.

WARNING: ZFS read-write support [...]