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30 Most Recent Blog Entries

timf ZFS Automatic Snapshots 0.12 - event-based snapshots and bugfixes
Jun 24, 3:44 AM
Simon Home Fileserver: Media Center
Jun 20, 4:19 PM
Your ZFS home fileserver / NAS is a great place to store your music, photo and video media, and if you’ve setup your ZFS file systems similar to the way described in Home Fileserver: ZFS File ...
Simon Home Fileserver: OpenSolaris 2009.06
Jun 16, 3:29 PM
After running SXCE for the last year, due to a failed hardware upgrade, it was time to install OpenSolaris 2009.06. I was due to leave on a trip the next morning, but foolishly I decided to install a ...
roch Compared Performance of Sun 7000 Unified Storage Array Line
Jun 11, 12:44 PM
The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array provides high-performance for NAS environments. Sun's product can be used on a wide variety of applications. The Sun Storage 7410 Unified Storage Array with ...
roch Free Beer and Free Deep Dive
May 27, 1:16 AM
For those lucky enough to be in the Bay area next week, I just heard there will be free unlimited beer and free access to the technical deep dives at the Community One event at the Moscone Center and ...
Simon Home Fileserver: ZFS File Systems
May 10, 2:44 PM
Once you’ve built your ZFS home fileserver / NAS, you’ll want to create your storage pool, create your file systems and share them to various devices around the home, such as laptops, PC’s, Macs, ...
Simon Home Fileserver: A Year in ZFS
May 1, 8:07 AM
Doesn’t quite have the same ring to it as ‘A Year in Provence’, does it? Oh well, never mind After a year of using Solaris and ZFS for a home fileserver, I thought I would share my experiences here ...
timf Automatic snapshots into The Cloud
Apr 27, 1:26 PM
I've been rather busy of late, with a recent trip to MPK resulting in a ton of work to bring back home, so haven't had much chance to blog as much as I'd like, apologies. But, recently, there's been ...
roch Need Inodes ?
Feb 13, 6:40 AM
It seems that some old school filesystem still need to statically allocate inodes to hold pointers to individual files. Normally this should not cause too much problems as default settings account ...
ahrens New Scrub Code
Dec 15, 3:51 PM
To fix a longstanding bug ( 6343667 , scrub/resilver has to start over when snapshot is taken), I ended up rewriting the ZFS scrub code (putback in OpenSolaris build 94). Mark Maybee and I were ...
roch Decoding Bonnie++
Dec 15, 7:29 AM
I've been studying the popular Bonnie++ load generator to see if it was a suitable benchmark to use with Network attached storage such as Sun Storage 7000 line. At this stage I've looked at the ...
timf 6777694 Need ability to control when auto-snapshots are taken
Dec 9, 2:35 AM
Since I started the zfs-auto-snapshot work back in May 2006 , there's been a missing piece of functionality. Well, I'm happy to say - it's missing no longer! With thanks to Luca Morettoni , we now ...
roch Blogfest : Performance and the Hybrid Storage Pool
Nov 10, 9:42 AM
Today Sun is announcing a new line of Unified Storage designed by a core of the most brilliant engineers . For starters Mike Shapiro provides a great introduction into this product, the new economics ...
timf One of the ways we tested the ZFS L2ARC
Nov 10, 7:43 AM
Today's a very interesting day for storage systems - it's cool to see the Fishworks team are announcing the Sun Storage 7000 series systems : congratulations one and all. Great things are afoot in my ...
roch Designing Performance Metrics for Sun Storage 7000
Nov 10, 7:00 AM
One of the necessary checkpoint before launching a product is to be able to assess it's performance. With Sun Storage 7xxx we had a challenge in that the only NFS benchmark of notoriety was SPEC SFS. ...
roch Using ZFS as a Network Attach Controller and the Value of Solid State Devices
Nov 10, 7:00 AM
So Sun is coming out today with a line of Sun Storage 7000 systems that have ZFS as the integrated volume and filesystem manager using both read and write optimized SSD. What is this Hybrid Storage ...
roch Delivering Performance Improvements to Sun Storage 7000
Nov 10, 7:00 AM
I describe here the effort I spearheaded studying the performance characteristics of the OpenStorage platform and the ways in which our team of engineers delivered real out of the box improvements to ...
relling Roch star and Really Cool Stuff
Nov 5, 11:46 AM
Our very own Roch star is in a new video released today as part of the MySQL releases today . In the video " A Look Inside Sun's MySQL Optimization Lab " Roch gives a little bit of a tour and at ...
roch People ask: where are we with ZFS performance ?
Nov 4, 6:31 AM
The standard answer to any computer performance question is almost always : "it depends" which is semantically equivalent to "I don't know". The better answer is to state the dependencies. I would ...
timf automatic snapshots after image-update to nv_100a
Oct 31, 9:13 AM
Luca pointed out some problems with doing a pkg image update to nv_100a bits regarding the new SUNWzfs-auto-snapshot functionality. You can follow the discussion on the indiana-discuss@ mailing list, ...
timf ZFS on your desktop - screenshots
Oct 14, 2:46 AM
Nice screenshots Erwann! Take a peek here .
timf ZFS Automatic Snapshots in nv_100
Oct 11, 3:39 AM
We got this code into nv_100, as part of LSARC 2008/571 and (at least inside Sun, so far) folks have been starting to play with it. It's the first time I've been able to use the GNOME Nautilus ...
relling Hey! Where did my snapshots go? Ahh, new feature...
Oct 1, 9:47 AM
I've been running Solaris NV b99 for a week or so.  I've also been experimenting with the new automatic snapshot tool, which should arrive in b100 soon. To see what snapshots are taken, you can use ...
Simon FAA using ZFS
Sep 28, 3:57 AM
The embattled FAA, which has suffered a number of embarrassing flight-plan system crashes this year, has upgraded its legacy internal business systems to a new open-systems server and storage ...
Jun-Hui Paul Duan ZFS Automatic Snapshots 0.11 预览版
Sep 22, 2:35 AM
我即将完成这个版本的 ZFS Automatic Snapshot SMF 服务，刚刚将一些更改放到了 opensolaris.org 的 Mercurial Repository 上。 这是一个非常重要的版本，修复了一些从发布时起就一直困扰我的缺陷。但是不可避免地，大量的更改也会带来大量的 bug。所以，我希望在发布正式版本前获得一些反馈。 ...
Jun-Hui Paul Duan ZFS Automatic Snapshots 0.10
Sep 22, 2:32 AM
我已经完成了 ZFS Automatic Snapshot SMF Service 的一个新版本。 这个版本修复了两个缺陷修复，一个由 Reid Spencer 指出，而另一个来自于 Breandan Dezendorf。谢谢你们，非常感激！ 在这个版本中也增加了一个新的小新功能，该功能由 Eric Kustarz 在 zfs-discuss 邮件列表上提出 。即当发生 zpool ...
Jun-Hui Paul Duan ZFS Automatic Snapshots 0.9 和 Backups 0.2
Sep 22, 2:28 AM
在这篇博客中我会发布一组 ZFS Automatic Snapshot & Backup 工具，这也许是最后一组了。别担心——这些服务不会消失，但是 Desktop 组中有些人开始更仔细地着手这个工作，所以它们可能会作为一个项目转移到 opensolaris.org 上的某个地方。稍后提供更多相关内容。 我现在已经有了两个新包——每个包中主要的更改是有更多的 GUI 集成，只是一些简单的 ...
Jun-Hui Paul Duan ZFS Automatic Snapshots - 0.8
Sep 22, 2:25 AM
这儿是对 ZFS Automatic Snapshot SMF 服务的一个小更新，这个更新最初在 这里 提到过。在这个版本中修复了一些缺陷，还添加了一个小功能。 第一个缺陷修复是好心的 Dick 指出的 ——对此很抱歉，但是现在没有问题了。 第二个有一点微妙。曾经有段时间，当我启动机器时，我注意到尽管快照服务实例都在 online ...
Jun-Hui Paul Duan ZFS Automatic Snapshot 服务日志记录
Sep 22, 2:22 AM
我刚刚对 ZFS Automatic Snapshots SMF Service 完成了一个相对比较次要的更新。 这里最主要的更新源于 Bill 的（友好的）抱怨：当从 cron 脚本运行时该服务有一点噪音。太对了！每次服务运行时，它都要为该服务调出 FMRI - 即使一切正常时，它仍然会打印，因此导致比必要输出更多的噪音。 ...
Jun-Hui Paul Duan ZFS Automatic Snapshots - 现在支持发送/接收了
Sep 22, 2:18 AM
我已经为 ZFS Automatic Snapshots SMF Service 原型编写了下一轮功能。您可以以 zfs-auto-snapshot-0.6.tar.gz 形式下载 本版本中主要的新功能包括： ZFS Send/Receive 支持 每个文件系统多个计划 ...