Wandering Thoughts archives

2015-12-28:	The limits of what ZFS scrubs check
2015-12-05:	The details behind `zpool list`'s new fragmentation percentage
2015-12-02:	What `zpool list`'s new FRAG fragmentation percentage means
2015-11-14:	ZFS pool import needs much better error messages
2015-11-13:	We killed off our SunSolve email contact address yesterday
2015-10-19:	Installing and pinning specific versions of OmniOS packages
2015-10-15:	Some notes on finding package versions in OmniOS with `pkg`
2015-10-09:	How much space ZFS reserves in your pools varies across versions
2015-09-11:	ZFS scrub rates, speeds, and how fast is fast
2015-09-10:	Changing kernel tunables can drastically speed up ZFS scrubs
2015-09-06:	Optimizing finding unowned files on our ZFS fileservers
2015-08-27:	Some notes on using Solaris kstat(s) in a program
2015-08-07:	One thing I now really want in ZFS: faster scrubs (and resilvers)
2015-07-20:	The OmniOS kernel can hold major amounts of unused memory for a long time
2015-07-15:	Mdb is so close to being a great tool for introspecting the kernel
2015-06-26:	The status of our problems with overloaded OmniOS NFS servers
2015-06-18:	The cost of OmniOS not having `/etc/cron.d`
2015-05-17:	A bit more on the ZFS delete queue and snapshots
2015-05-15:	Your Illumos-based NFS fileserver may be 'leaking' deleted files The ZFS delete queue: ZFS's solution to the pending delete problem
2015-05-02:	OmniOS as a NFS server has problems with sustained write loads
2015-04-22:	Don't make `/opt` a filesystem on OmniOS (or probably Illumos generally)
2015-04-14:	Allowing people to be in more than 16 groups with an OmniOS NFS server
2015-03-16:	Our difficulties with OmniOS upgrades
2015-03-08:	Why ZFS's 'directory must be empty' mount restriction is sensible
2015-02-20:	All of our Solaris 10 machines are now out of production
2015-02-11:	ZFS can apparently start NFS fileservice before boot finishes
2015-02-10:	Our ZFS fileservers have a serious problem when pools hit quota limits
2015-01-15:	General ZFS pool shrinking will likely be coming to Illumos
2015-01-13:	Our tradeoffs on ZFS ZIL SLOG devices for pools
2015-01-11:	The effects of losing a ZFS ZIL SLOG device, as I understand them

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