Archive for March, 2008
Now that you’ve got your ZFS Home Fileserver up and running and you’ve got your file systems created and shared to other machines on your home network, now’s the time to consider getting some backup policy in place.
I’ll show a few different possibilities open to you.
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March 12th, 2008 | Posted in Fileserver, Storage, ZFS | 7 Comments
The next step in setting up your own ZFS home fileserver is to set up your ZFS storage pool and file systems and then share them with other machines. The ZFS commands should work from any operating system where ZFS is available. I have used two machines in this example: a machine running Sun Solaris [...]
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March 8th, 2008 | Posted in Fileserver, Storage, ZFS | 31 Comments
After deciding that I would use Sun Solaris and its ZFS file system as the foundation for a home fileserver, the next part was to select compatible hardware, as Solaris has fairly limited driver support for hardware.
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March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Fileserver, Mac, OS X, Software, Storage, ZFS | 60 Comments
After reading an article that turned out to be pure gold, namely: A Conversation with Jeff Bonwick and Bill Moore - The future of file systems, I felt a warm glow inside and realised that ZFS seemed to be the best solution currently available for solving a number of current problems, and I wanted to [...]
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March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Fileserver, Storage, ZFS | 10 Comments
When I began my search for a suitable fileserver, I found the choice of available technologies and products quite overwhelming, with each having their own pros and cons.
Here is a list of things I considered:
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March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Fileserver, Storage, ZFS | 2 Comments
Before embarking on this project I asked myself what I needed a fileserver for. That is, what would I put on there and, therefore, how much storage space would I require.
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March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Fileserver, Storage, ZFS | 2 Comments
For many people who use a computer, knowing where to store growing amounts of data can become tricky.
You start off with one disk, run out of space, buy a bigger one etc. And if you have a camcorder you’ll be generating gigabytes of data for every Mini DV tape you record. Also, you may have [...]
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March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Fileserver, Storage, ZFS | 24 Comments
As talked about at length in a previous posting, the brands / corporations are paying online snooping companies, err… ’social media monitoring’ companies’ to scour the internet for bad words said about them and their products.
Well, you’d think it would be obvious to a company that when they intentionally use restrictive practices in their products, [...]
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March 2nd, 2008 | Posted in Brands, Business, Room101 | No Comments
I can’t be the only one who has a free email account, and from time to time checks the ’spam’ folder before deleting it all, just in case some genuine person has sent an email that has triggered the spam filter somehow. The filth and annoying crap you find in there is just incredible. Today, [...]
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March 1st, 2008 | Posted in Humour, Software | No Comments