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ZFS Internals (PDF version)

Hello there! I'm publishing a compilation of my blog posts from the ZFS Internals series. This first draft has 9 parts, and i hope to add more material soon. You are welcome if you want to participate (feedback, critics, comments, material, anything)... so we can have something like a ...
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A whole new mind

I I did receive this book as a gift from a friend, and is a really nice book! It's interesting how us, Humans Beings, are so full of preconcepts. Black and white, East and West, this and that... I was surprise to see that the 'Man' once, did think that one side ...
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Hitachi

Today i was in one event where Hu Yoshida, Vice President and CTO (Hitachi Data Systems Corporation) was doing a presentation about Hitachi storage products. It's always good to listen from a well known storage specialist. That said... The focus of the presentation was the USP (Universal Storage Platform), virtualization ...
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F1 is back!

... and in my opinion: 1 - Schumacher had a bad idea. 2 - Rosberg did show that he is a great driver. It was just one mistake from Hamilton, and he did overtake him. 3 - Massa is back! 4 - Ferrari is always the same, first race and already asking to ...
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ZFS Book

It was a hard job, but it's done! As i'm used to say, it's NOT a 'ZFS Bible' or 'The Definitive Guide', but is a practical book, and with many insights into ZFS working. The OpenSolaris 2009.06 release CD with the book, makes even easier to install the OpenSolaris OS ...
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ZFS Internals (part #9)

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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PS3 and Music, movies…

Wonderful combination: PS3, MacOSX and PS3 Media Server. I was looking for a solution for streaming movies, and music for my PS3 console, and PS3 Media Server just works. Without any previous conversion on the movie files, it converts on the fly, and we can watch the movies without any ...
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