Monthly Archives: February 2009

When my experiment in benchmarking ZFS-Fuse yielded more data than I knew what to do with, I googled around a bit and found at least one other person in a similar position who contacted the author (Don Capps) of my … Continue reading →

Today I finally got VMWare up and running on Hydra, and simultaneously installed Windows XP Pro x64 edition on that and on my new MacBookPro 17″ (more on that later!) under VMWare Fusion. The neverending sequence of updates required every … Continue reading →

Repeat after me: I will never change the partition table on a disk that’s part of an active RAID array. I will never change the partition table on a disk that’s part of an active RAID array. I will never … Continue reading →

The first time I set up ZFS-Fuse on Hydra, I misinterpreted the admonition to use “whole disk vdevs” to mean that I should create pools from the entire disk device: # zpool create raidz2 /dev/sda /dev/sdb /dev/sdc /dev/sdd But it … Continue reading →

Today (yesterday?) I foolishly decided to try again with GRUB2 svn to /boot off RAID6 after being told by one of its devs that my distro’s version was way out of date. That didn’t go so well. I guess it’s … Continue reading →

My server finally has a backup system.  Well, we’ll have to see whether the backup cron job fires off tonight, but aside from that, it seems to be working.  The code is available in our GitHub repo.  Now I’m off … Continue reading →

So I’m rebuilding my server… I figured I’d better get backup going early.  So I went to look at my github project and it was clearly incomplete (Python syntax error).  Yet I *had* done a complete successful backup already, so … Continue reading →

I’m currently rebuilding my Ubuntu everything-server and trying to document what I’m doing.  The links to Hydra pages on the right side of the page cover that stuff.

I am rebuilding my server and have reached a point where it would be convenient to do some filesystem benchmarking. Not much is installed so far. I ran some bonnie++ tests but had trouble making sense of the results There … Continue reading →