A while ago I saw the Backblaze storage pod and was impressed, super cheap and space for 45 drives in 4U. I found a place to have them made in the UK (in matt black, not the Backblaze red) and though I sold most of them I have still got a few left »
A while ago I saw the Backblaze storage pod and was impressed. Like many others I thought: I want one Wouldn’t it work great with ZFS The hardware sucks Building one I used to make and sell storage servers using Linux a while ago with media streaming »
I have just had a disk fail on my NAS, actually it happened ages ago but I was too broke to replace it. At the same time as one being faulted, another was degraded through having too many errors. Below is my interaction with ZFS to discover the extent »
When I first heard about ZFS and its features, I was intrigued by a comment by Bill More about the possibility of having a database or other app directly consume the DMU that ZFS uses for filesystems or volumes. After I did a spot of research when editing »
After me banging on for a year about how cool ZFS is, my boss is finally convinced and wants to get a Thumper (or 2). Depending on budgetary constraints we may be getting a couple of these to implement a warm backup solution for our current data and about »
Exporting a ZFS filesystem via NFS is easy, you just use the command zfs set sharesmb=on POOLNAME/FSNAME In order to share via CIFS (sometimes called SMB) to windows clients, you used to have to use Samba. This is not a problem for simple setups that »