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116: A Made Up Excuse
I’m hurriedly throwing together a talk for NYCBUG on 1 April, and so had to disinter the best sentence I have ever written. All of those books, and my best work isn’t in any of them. For April…
115: Both Sides of a Mirror Have Errors
I’m working on OpenZFS Mastery’s discussion of self-healing with a completely plugged ear, so I have no idea how this sounds. OpenZFS uses hashes almost everywhere. A hash is an algorithm that takes…
114: 98% Free from Arthropod Infestation
My new FreeBSD Journal column just went to the editor. Oh AWOL, my succulent summer child, You’re the latest model of Human(tm), a digital native, theoretically enlightened by access to the collected…
113: Destroying Performance
Talking pools in OpenZFS Mastery, which means yet again talking about blocks and sectors and alignment. GPT partitions fill a number of sectors. If you partition a drive assuming 512-byte sectors,…
112: A Special Uberblock
OpenZFS Mastery is staggering along. Here we talk about how ZFS maintains uber-integrity. Not having dedicated special index blocks sounds great, but every data tree needs a root. ZFS stores a…
111: Artifically Prolonged, Unnecessarily Stressful
Here’s OpenZFS Mastery on physical labeling. I have strong feelings on this. Develop a consistent naming and numbering scheme for your storage arrays, and use it dogmatically. Many storage arrays…
110: Resorting to Extraordinary Means
Work is underway on OpenZFS Mastery. ZFS can run on anything the operating system presents as a block device. The most common are disks. Spinning rust, SSD, NVMe? Sure. Virtual disk files stored on…
109: We Won't Live Long Enough
Yes, I’ve been missing for a few weeks. Caught a bad case of Life. Here’s some OpenZFS Mastery. ZFS advocates claim that ZFS is immune to these arbitrary limits, but that’s not quite true. ZFS store…
108: Spent Decades Writing Scripts to Parse df(1)
With Networking for Systems Administrators production wrapping up, OpenZFS Mastery is starting to lurch forward. Here’s a tidbit. ZFS combines traditional filesystems and volume managers. It expects…
107: Which Drive Is It?
Have some OpenZFS Mastery. “ZFS reports that one of the seventy-nine drives in our array is failing? Great! We can replace it in a convenient maintenance window before it causes problems. Uh… which…
106: That Version of GRUB
I skipped last week due to Excessive System Administration, but here’s a snippet from OpenZFS Mastery. Lucas’ virtualization host for testing this book ran bhyve on FreeBSD 14. FreeBSD 14 uses…
105: A Fully Patched ShroomOS
Here’s a tidbit from the backers-only special edition of Networking for System Administrators. All those shrooms were one interconnected, internally networked living thing. Networked. Sort of like…
104: Software RAID on Windows 3.1
“Trust” seems to be a recurrent theme of the OpenZFS book. Here we discuss so-called hardware RAID. All RAID is software RAID. Your hardware RAID controller runs a custom operating system to perform…
103: We Can't Trust
Last week’s episode was called on account of covid. My brain is only lightly friend today, so here’s a bit of OpenZFS Mastery. Storage is a sysadmin’s natural enemy. You might think it’s management,…
102: My Chief Goon
I’m at EuroBSDCon in Croatia teaching TLS and SMTP, so here’s a snippet from my TLS tutorial. Let’s say I create a public key pair. I keep one key of the pair. The other key I give to my chief goon,…
101: The Hearing's Gonna Be Lit
The Networking for System Administrators Kickstarter is running full steam ahead, so I’m making words on OpenZFS Mastery. It’s a second edition of FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS and FreeBSD Mastery: Advanced…
100: The First Rule of System Administration
I can’t believe I’ve done 100 of these silly things. Anyway, here’s a tidbit from my next FreeBSD Journal Letters column. Don’t give me that look. All computers increase pain. The purpose of a…
99: An Absence of Moral Fiber
I’m swamped doing math for the networking book kickstarter, trying to compensate for the recent political stupidity that’s kicking small business when it’s down, so here’s a tidbit from an older…
98: Suffering Builds Character
The new edition of Networking for System Administrators just went to copyedit, so I can forget about it for a few weeks. The people who most deserve credit for this book are the folks who struggled…
97: Tortuous Negotiations
I’m buried in tech edits for Networking for System Administrators, but this bit explains why I wrote the book. I’ve been in more than one IT organization where the various groups feel frustrated or…
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