Oracle/Sun Deal Gets More Time

Posted on November 25, 2009

Just an update on the acquisition front... Oracle gets more time to respond to EC antitrust concerns. "The deadline for a final ruling has been put back to Jan. 27 from Jan. 19, which amounts to six additional working days for Oracle to win over the skeptical regulator." It's become crystal clear, for those not following the issue, that this is really all about MySQL. As I and others have sited repeatedly, the de facto standard MySQL ...

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Nevada Build 128 BFU’s Ready

Posted on November 24, 2009

Nevada Build 128b (snv_128) is now closed and available as BFU or source tarball. This means that those who want to play with ZFS Dedup but don't want to build from source can give it a go. It should be said that there have been a lot of exciting enhancements to Nevada over the last couple of builds. Here are some of the changes in the last couple builds: ZFS Dedup zpool recovery support More ZFS fixes and improvements than you ...

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A Little Friday Distraction

Posted on November 20, 2009

Role models are something we have few of; sad that perhaps the most recent one comes from a beer commercial: I mean, come on... his advice on careers "Find what you don't do well.... and don't do that thing." Classic! Need something more expansive? Learn Chinese! If you find it difficult, try to learn Japanesse... and then you'll go back and appreciate how much easier Chinese languages are. Not intellectual enough? Need ...

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Must Have Apps for the Mac

Posted on November 19, 2009

Lots of folks have switched to Mac, its the most commonly used laptop in the Bay Area now. Sometimes people give me flack for using it, but I'll tell you why I use a Mac laptop: It just works! When going to a client site, a conference, or just a cafe, there is nothing more embarrassing than spending 20 minutes trying to get your l337 *NIX laptop to connect to wireless or properly DHCP or work with a printer. This isn't as big a problem ...

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Intel Capital Invests in Joyent

Posted on November 17, 2009

I'm really pleased to announce that Intel Capital has invested in Joyent. This is a really exciting thing for us. This is the first time we've taken funding. We've really been proud of the fact that we haven't needed funding, but the benefits that come along with an investment from Intel are fantastic and just that relationship alone is exciting. This is a big announcement not only for Joyent, but for OpenSolaris as well. We're ...

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LISA BoF

Posted on November 17, 2009

My talk at LISA is now available. This is a 1 hour version of the ZFS in the Trenches talk. As always I hope that you find it informative and at least a little entertaining. Slides are here). I also want to take this opportunity to say a heart felt thank you to Deirdré Straughan, Lynn Rohrer, and Teresa Giacomini. Because of Deirdre countless people around the globe can participate and learn from important events. Not only ...

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Community Poll: Whats your favorite Directory Server?

Posted on November 13, 2009

For sometime now I've gone back and forth on what is my personally preferred (LDAP) directory server; in particular between Sun Directory Server Enterprise Edition, OpenDS, and OpenLDAP. Each has advantages and trade-offs: DSEE: Not free, complex, but well trusted, exceptional scalability OpenDS: Free, super simple install and management GUI included, best starter directory for sure, but relatively new to the scene and thus needs to ...

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First Look at ZFS Deduplication

Posted on November 10, 2009

ZFS Deduplication was recently putback (Sun terminology for "commit") to ON (Solaris's primary codebase). That means it should go out at snv_128 (Build 128) due later this week. Unable to wait for the BFU archives I resorted to actually building the code myself to play; something I've not felt the burning need to do for at least 2 years (I'll blog about that shortly). Here's the initial review... In typical fashion putting ZFS ...

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Dedup Arrives

Posted on November 9, 2009

benr@quadra ~$ zpool list NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT quadra 928G 518G 410G 55% 1.00x ONLINE - Shiny. ;) More to come soon....

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Dr. G: Medical Examiner

Posted on November 8, 2009

One of the many facinating things I discovered at LISA was that almost no one has heard of (no one at my sessions at LISA anyway) Dr. G: Medical Examiner Jan C. Garavaglia, M.D., (aka "Dr. G") is the chief medical examiner for the District Nine (Orange-Osceola) Medical Examiner's Office in Florida. An assortment of her cases are strung together to create the weekly show on Discovery Health "Dr. G: Medical Examiner." Another......

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