D tails…

Dtrace as any other programming language has many details, and i was bitten by one of them... Sometime ago i did a post about some strange values in the latency times provided by one script at NFSv3 provider wiki. Well, the culprit was the predicate, actually the predicate was not ...
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Fishworks RFE (2)

The Sun 7000 Storages have many old, old, ZFS replication problems... Some are ZFS old problems, and other old problems from fishworks itself... - We can not replicate per dataset, just entire projects. The only way to replicate one dataset, is create a project for each dataset... well, why i want ...
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Conspiracy Theory

Well, as many of you, i remember all the criticism Sun and the OpenSolaris project did receive on the start (the license, the company behind, etc). I think i'm not radical about Open Source software, i did use GPL, BSD, CDDL, and even proprietary software. I have my personal opinion ...
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Futebol brasileiro tem que ter decisão!

Parece que sou minoria, mas realmente não gosto desta nova fórmula do campeonato brasileiro de pontos corridos. Acho uma cópia barata do modelo europeu, e como não podia ser diferente, está indo pelo mesmo caminho... Acontece que por lá, os países tem dois ou três times que concorrem ao título, passeando ...
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NFS Performance

As many of you, i did start to work with NFS when performance was not a problem. Right? Well, more or less... performance was not the first problem. The first real problem was get the whole thing working! Compatibility was a huge problem, and i'm not talking about GNU/Linux and ...
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Olhar Digital III (English)

These days two of my kids did participate on a television show about their experience in GNU/Linux. The program is in Brazilian Portuguese, but I did find this youtube version with english subtitles. So, if you want to watch... ps.: I did think they were learning MS Windows at school... Now I ...
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Storage 7410 RFE

Hello there! I did a post about IO on demand some time ago, and that post was about some aspects i think we need to have more power on the storage land. I think the 7410 (fishworks) is a great step in the Unified Storage Model, but in the same ...
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Olhar Digital II (Filhos do Linux)

O programa de hoje do Olhar Digital tem um fato muito interessante sobre minha formação profissional, e sobre o GNU/Linux. Eu já trabalhei com outros sistemas operacionais que não eram 'Unix like', e inclusive já administrei servidores Windows NT e etc. Mas depois que comecei a trabalhar com GNU/Linux, minha ...
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Olhar Digital

A really nice experience! It's always good when we can help, and my job was help some new users of the Ubuntu GNU/Linux Distro in this television show (Brazilian Portuguese). Basically, the users had two difficulties: 1 - Install the firefox flash plugin; 2 - Install a MSN client; The ...
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