Tag: ZFS
OpenSolaris 2008.11 – A Preview For The Storage Admin
Many reviews have been written about OpenSolaris since its release, but all of them barely tread beyond the desktop aspect, with the obligatory screenshots of the GNOME environment and a high-level description of only the major features most are already familiar with, or at least have heard of. I’d like Read More …
Server upgrade time – elemental.org gets modern
After almost 8 years of running elemental.org mail, mailing lists, shell accounts, many websites (such as this one), database servers and essentially being a one-server ISP, the Sun Ultra 2 which ran all those things as lithium.elemental.org was retired and replaced this past weekend with a new server. Say hello to mercury.elemental.org. Mercury is Read More …
My presentation at the 2007 AFS & Kerberos Workshop
This past week, the 2007 AFS & Kerberos Workshop went on at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) near Palo Alto, CA. Many people from an array of places eductational, government, and commercial came and presented papers and discourse on a wide range of topics involving AFS and Kerberos. I Read More …
Crying “FUD” doesn’t always mean you’re right
…and it sure doesn’t grant you instant vindication. It appears that DaveM (Linux networking and SPARC port guru) has gotten seriously wound up in response to a blog post by Jeff Bonwick (Sun’s storage and kernel guru.) As one can see in Jeff’s post, the suject he wrote about was Read More …