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ZFS Internals (part #11)

PLEASE BE AWARE THAT ANY INFORMATION YOU MAY FIND HERE MAY BE INACCURATE, AND COULD INCLUDE TECHNICAL INACCURACIES, TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS, AND EVEN SPELLING ERRORS. From the MANUAL page: The zdb command is used by support engineers to diagnose failures and gather statistics. Since the ZFS file ...
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I talk too much…

Ok, that was funny... well, not really, because i did loose a lot of time on it. I have no experience with ASM (Automatic Storage Management) by Oracle, and while a system administrator, i did manage the oracle volumes as filesystems. The raw devices on that time had the 'performance' ...
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Bulletin Board (Forum ZFS, Storage, etc)…

Antes tarde do que nunca... é um ditado bem popular. Tenho alguns projetos pessoais como aplicativos de código aberto, e recentemente meu livro sobre ZFS, e estava faltando um canal 'oficial' para tratar destes assuntos com os usuários destes projetos, e possivelmente desenvolvedores que queiram participar também. Com o ...
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Intel Specification Update

In October 1, 2010, Intel released a document that describes design defects, known errors, and all the stuff that can make a sysadmin's life a pain. It was an specification update for the Intel 82546GB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (e1000 driver for most *nix implementations). This ethernet controller is ...
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NFS, TCP, retrans and timeo

I think there is a misunderstanding regarding the protocols and NFS options while using it over TCP. As the NFS is an old protocol, and used to UDP, when the implementations did change the default transport to TCP, the features from one were mixed to the other in some interpretations. Well, ...
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Solaris 11

Hello there... As many of you already know, a new version of Solaris Operating System is available: Solaris 11 Express. Seems like the Solaris 11 will be released next year, but i really don't know if that is the case neither the diff between Solaris 11 Express and Solaris 11. From what ...
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