I’m smitten with SSD and Gizmodo just fed me a loving spoonful of SSD PR0N. The moving parts of a traditional drive just bug me to no end: I’ve had so many drive failures over the years that solid state storage (or whatever is poised to eclipse it even) intrigue me. One thing that ROYALL...

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 for an average filesize of 32K. Or will it ? If the avg filesize you need to store on the filesystem is...

This article was culled from Starting ZFS-FUSE up properly Here is a collection of tips you must pay attention to: Put the ZFS PID file in the root filesystem. Unset the LANG environment variable.  Failure to do so will cause ZFS-FUSE to hang if your /usr is on ZFS. Immunize ZFS-FUSE against th...

WORLDVIEW SEO PR BUSINESS-TECH WIRE — LiveTime Software announced today that it is adding ZFS support to its hardware appliances preconfigured to run its leading ITIL service management and help desk software. ZFS is the next new thing in storage. Additional hard disks are not seen as addition...

Seit der neuesten Version kann Solaris 10 also auch von ZFS booten und sogar das Jumpstart Enterprise Toolkit (Jet) unterstützt es, also mußte ich mal gucken wie es funktioniert. Tja, was soll ich sagen - es funktioniert nicht, zumindest das Zusammenspiel von JET und ZFS Boot. Warum, das w...

Sun has relesed the Sun Storage 7000 series of unified storage systems. The systems use a “hybrid storage pool” consisting of solid state disks, hard disk drives, and RAM to improve performance over traditional HDD-only units. The Sun Storage 7110 has 8GB of RAM and provides 2TB of stora...

All day today while the West Coast of the U.S. has been sleeping, I've been reading articles in the media about Sun's new open storage appliances -- the Sun Storage 7110, 7210, and 7410. The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and the tech media all had articles on these new systems. But the Forbes piece g...

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 opinion, these are fantastic systems. While I'm not working on storage systems at Sun any more, I do ...

About a year ago, I tried to use the Gigabyte GC-RAMDISK/iRAM SATA RAMDISK and ran into horrible problems. I was looking for a non-volatile storage device that I could use for ZFS logs, so fsync() and friends could complete in a millisecond or two, but it was pretty clear that the iRAM just wasnR...

Network.com setup in Vegas, Thumper disk bay, green by Shawn Ferry As I expected it would, the fact that I used ZFS compression on our MySQL volume in my little OpenSolaris experiment struck a chord in the comments. I chose gzip-9 for our first pass for a few reasons: I wanted to see what the “...