Archive for November, 2014
ruBSD 2014 is coming
Just like in year 2013 Yandex will be hosting ruBSD 2014 (content is in Russian) event on the 13th of December. It’s funny that I learnt about it from BSD Now podcast which, btw, I highly recommend. In the last episode, apart from the already mentioned ruBSD 2014 conference, Allan Jude and Kris Moore also […]
Jumping into another cloud
After almost 4 years of being a Rackspace user I’ve moved to a new home – Amazon AWS. The main reason that gave me a nudge was the issue I was hit by after upgrading to 10.1-Release. Temporary solution did work but it was too costly to consider it as permanent so I started to […]
FreeBSD 10.1-Release as domU (guest) VM
I’ve been running FreeBSD 10.0-Release for quite a while using Rackspace’s environment and yesterday decided to jump on 10.1-Release bandwagon using exactly the same steps which I described in on of my earlier posts. However it wasn’t successful as expected since I see constant freezes with the following errors being displayed in the console: network_alloc_rx_buffers: […]
ZFS RAIDZ stripe width explained
Frankly speaking, dynamic stripping part of ZFS was never clearly understood by me, until I came across the following article by Matt Ahrens – http://blog.delphix.com/matt/2014/06/06/zfs-stripe-width/. Really worth reading.