ZFS Delegated Administration in FreeBSD
If you trust your users well, you might feel slightly less anxious and allow your users to create new filesystems below their own home directories.
Read More → ZFS Delegated Administration in FreeBSDAre you prepared for the World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012?
Last year we had the World IPv6 Day on June 8, 2011. This year we’ll have the World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012. According to this joint press release by Akamai Technologies, Inc., AT&T, Cisco, Comcast, D-Link, Facebook, Google Inc., Internet Society, Internode, Limelight Networks, Microsoft Bing, Time Warner Cable, and Yahoo!: Major Internet […]
Read More → Are you prepared for the World IPv6 Launch on June 6, 2012?Relational confession
Every non-key attribute must provide a fact about the key, the whole key, and nothing but the key, so help me Codd. From IRC@EFnet: 2012-04-12T11:34:56+0200
Read More → Relational confessionPersisting IPv6 DNS resolver addresses
Here’s a conundrum aimed at those dabbling in the internals of Microsoft Windows 7.
Read More → Persisting IPv6 DNS resolver addressesNot enough room for wired pages?
One of my systems is running FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-STABLE and is using ZFS for all its worth. The amount of installed memory in this system is 8 gibibytes, which should be enough to please even ZFS’ ARC. After a few hours of uptime not everyone are happy, and one of those unhappy guys are GnuPG.
Read More → Not enough room for wired pages?Resizing mirrored ZFS root pool
George Mamalakis was having trouble with ZFS not detecting and utilizing his resized GPT freebsd-zfs partitions. Marco van Tol came to the rescue with a corrective procedure. Credit goes to George Mamalakis for raising the issue and to Marco van Tol for the solution. I’m just a simple bystander in comparison to these two, fine […]
Read More → Resizing mirrored ZFS root poolPeriodic ZFS snapshots
As I continue exploring the nearly endless possibilities within ZFS, I figured it would be neat to have periodic snapshots of my mail files. The “Interweb” is filled with various shell scripts for this purpose, and I guess another one won’t make much difference.
Read More → Periodic ZFS snapshotsCD/DVD drives in Windows 7 and code 39 error
A collegue’s desktop computer has twice lost touch with its DVD drive. The drive is OK, it’s recognized by the BIOS, it even booted from a FreeBSD DVD when told to do so. Yet Windows 7 refused to display the drive. The Device Manager utility complained about a missing driver service and something about a […]
Read More → CD/DVD drives in Windows 7 and code 39 errorAbolish bad legacy systems
It’s amazing how easy it’s to lock oneself out from doing anything usable in Microsoft Windows. This particular operating system should be more careful of protecting its handling of executeable files.
Read More → Abolish bad legacy systemsNew server and first attempt at running FreeBSD/amd64 with ZFS for all storage
The switch to new hardware finally happened. This is the first server to run FreeBSD/amd64 under my supervision. ZFS is used for all storage on this server. I chose to install the newly released FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-RELEASE, before upgrading to FreeBSD/amd64 9.0-STABLE by source. It’s just a matter of preference, given my 13-14 years of experience […]
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