filed in Uncategorized on Aug.31, 2009
So, i have been thinking about building a ZFS powered SAN, and today i started thinking about using USB keys and drives… Why? SATA controllers with more than 4 ports are not cheap!
So, the way i was thinking was as follows (If anyone knows about ZFS and SANs, tell me if this is completely off [...]
filed in Uncategorized on Jul.21, 2009
A while back i talked about a company called Diomede who had a new way of storing data… i wont go into too much detail here (check the old post) but basically they offered 3 ways of storing your data: online, near line and offline… online accessible instantly, near line available within 5 min of [...]
filed in Uncategorized on Jul.19, 2009
Ok, this is more of a Random Post than anything else, but here goes nothing…
I have been playing with ZFS for the last couple of weeks, under a VMWare VM with a copy of Nexenta Core and i am quite impressed.
Some things i have learned to do and how they work below:
some basics on creating [...]
