Monthly Archives: January 2009

FreeBSD with ZFS

Posted on 30 January, 2009 by izamryan

So I got FreeBSD 7.1 w/ ZFS on my root file system working like a charm. I followed the instructions at www.ish.com.au, with some exceptions, which follow after the break. The cool thing? 1,860 GB of storage space. 930 GB … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris vs FreeBSD .. .which do I go for?

Posted on 30 January, 2009 by izamryan

Dilemma! I’m setting up a home NAS … but do I return to my FreeBSD roots or shall I try something new and go with OpenSolaris? Both are Open Source, both have excellent communities etc. And most importantly? Both have … Continue reading →

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BAG Networks Chinese New Year 2009 greetings

Posted on 28 January, 2009 by izamryan
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OpenSolaris with a raid-z array, Part2

Posted on 27 January, 2009 by izamryan

Here is my attempt to install OpenSolaris on 3x 4GB drives in a virtualised environment. This did not go well at all! My virtualised environment could not boot because I used the wrong commands in Step 3 and overwrote the … Continue reading →

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OpenSolaris with a raid-z array, Part1

Posted on 26 January, 2009 by izamryan

The documentation for ZFS and OpenSolaris seems “technically correct” in a kind of austere fashion … but I haven’t found some “dumbed-down” simplified documentation for OpenSolaris newbies like there are for Linux/FreeBSD equivalents. Reading the Solaris/OpenSolaris docs, I get this … Continue reading →

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Sun’s xVM VirtualBox

Posted on 21 January, 2009 by izamryan

My experiment in using Fedora 10′s built-in virtualisation technology  (based on KVM and qemu / kqemu) to install OpenSolaris didn’t go too well! I find the emulator to be just too slow for my taste, but I’m not sure if … Continue reading →

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Installing OpenSolaris 2008.11 in a virtual machine within Fedora 10 (or any Linux with KVM)

Posted on 20 January, 2009 by izamryan

I need to set up some OpenSolaris servers for a pet project, and so I can educate myself about the ins and outs of OpenSolaris. I don’t have lots of server hardware lying around spare and I don’t want to … Continue reading →

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Shouting at your disk array is not supported

Posted on 18 January, 2009 by izamryan

The power of OpenSolaris, with DTrace. A more detailed analysis follows in a Sun blog and a cnet article. OpenSolaris is downloadable for free from Sun Microsystems. It is a cutting edge open source Unix with some very nice features: … Continue reading →

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Should .gov promote/fund universal deployment of network infra?

Posted on 12 January, 2009 by izamryan

Again through Wired Magazine, I came across some excellent articles from a blog written by the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA). Let me give you a few quotes: From “Top ten things lawyers should know about internet research … Continue reading →

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