Wandering Thoughts archives

2014-12-22:	The future of OmniOS here if we can't get 10G-T working on it
2014-12-19:	Our likely long road to working 10G-T on OmniOS
2014-11-16:	We've started to decommission our Solaris 10 fileservers
2014-11-15:	Our current problems with 10G Intel networking on OmniOS
2014-10-31:	With ZFS, rewriting a file in place might make you run out of space
2014-10-26:	Things that can happen when (and as) your ZFS pool fills up
2014-10-25:	The difference in available pool space between `zfs list` and `zpool list`
2014-10-03:	When using Illumos's `lockstat`, check the cumulative numbers too
2014-09-17:	In praise of Solaris's `pfiles` command
2014-09-05:	A DTrace script to help figure out what process IO is slow
2014-08-22:	Where DTrace aggregates are handled for printing et al
2014-08-03:	Our second generation ZFS fileservers and their setup
2014-07-25:	The OmniOS version of SSH is kind of slow for bulk transfers
2014-07-02:	Why Solaris's SMF is not a good init system
2014-06-27:	A retrospective on our Solaris ZFS-based NFS fileservers (part 2)
2014-06-25:	A retrospective on our Solaris ZFS-based NFS fileservers (part 1)
2014-05-21:	How I wish ZFS pool importing could work
2014-05-02:	An important addition to how ZFS deduplication works on the disk
2014-04-26:	What I can see about how ZFS deduplication seems to work on disk
2014-04-02:	I'm angry that ZFS still doesn't have an API
2014-03-31:	I'm done with building tools around '`zpool status`' output
2014-03-19:	Why I like ZFS's `zfs send` and `zfs receive`
2014-03-09:	Solaris gives us a lesson in how not to write documentation
2014-03-05:	ZFS's problem with boot time magic
2014-02-09:	Why I'm not looking at installing OmniOS via Kayak
2014-02-07:	A surprise with OmniOS disk sizing: the `rpool/dump` ZVOL
2014-01-30:	OmniOS (and by extension Illumos) is pretty much Solaris
2014-01-14:	The problem with OmniOS's 'build your own' view for Perl and Python

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