Wandering Thoughts archives

2013-12-26:	How ZFS scrubs routinely save us
2013-12-18:	Thinking about what we'll need for reproducible OmniOS installs
2013-11-04:	How writes work on ZFS raidzN pools, with implications for 4k disks
2013-11-02:	Revising our peculiar ZFS L2ARC trick
2013-10-18:	ZFS uberblock rollback and the top level metadata change rate
2013-10-13:	Revisiting some bits of ZFS's ZIL with separate log devices
2013-09-23:	ZFS filesystem compression and quotas
2013-09-02:	A little bit more on ZFS RAIDZ read performance
2013-08-16:	SSDs may make ZFS raidz viable for general use A peculiar use of ZFS L2ARC that we're planning
2013-07-11:	The ZFS ZIL's optimizations for data writes ZFS transaction groups and the ZFS Intent Log
2013-07-09:	How we want to recover our ZFS pools from SAN outages
2013-07-05:	ZFS deduplication is terribly documented
2013-06-25:	Balancing Illumos against ZFS on Linux
2013-06-11:	The good and bad of IPS (as I see it)
2013-05-27:	Our situation with ZFS and 4 Kb physical sector disks
2013-05-08:	Thoughts on when to replace disks in a ZFS pool How ZFS resilvering saved us
2013-04-19:	How ZFS deals with 'advanced format' disks with 4 Kb physical sectors
2013-04-11:	Something I'd like to be easier in Solaris's IPS
2013-04-08:	Why ZFS still needs an equivalent of `fsck`
2013-03-29:	Illumos-based distributions are currently not fully mature
2013-03-26:	Reconsidering a ZFS root filesystem
2013-02-26:	Thinking about how much Solaris 11 is worth to us
2013-02-18:	The strikes against Solaris 11 for us
2013-01-30:	Thinking about FreeBSD versus Illumos for our ZFS fileservers
2013-01-04:	DTrace's stable providers are not good enough

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