When looking at the mails and comments I get about my ZFS optimization and my RAID-Greed posts, the same type of questions tend to pop up over and over again. Here’s an example from a reader email: “I was reading about ZFS on your blog and you mention …
One of the web 2.0 startup hypes du jour is called Flattr. It’s a micro-payment service that enables readers to allocate a monthly budget they can use to “flattr” blog posts and other content by clicking a simple badge. The monthly flat-rate is then distributed to the “flattred …
In the last couple of posts, we used DTrace to notify our media servers and perfected our script a bit.
But the script is still not ready to be used on our home servers yet: It requires manual start and stop, not quite the service oriented automatism we’re used …
A few weeks ago, we discussed using DTrace for automatically updating media servers when you upload new content.
Yesterday though, I discovered that my D script didn’t work any more. I uploaded new songs to my home server, and expected the music daemon to re-scan the music directory, but …
This is a long article, but I hope you’ll still find it interesting to read. Let me know if you want me to break down future long articles into multiple parts instead.
One of the most frequently asked questions around ZFS is: “How can I improve ZFS performance?”.
This …
During OSDevCon 2009 in Dresden (no link, osdevcon.org no longer exists), I had the honor to present on some lessons learned while putting together a ZFS Automatic-Scrubbing SMF service.
Today, Deirdre was so kind to publish the video recording of my presentation on The Oracle Solaris Video Blog (no …
Before we continue with our Home Server Scripting Series, let’s throw in a simple but useful DTrace hack.
One of the most typical uses for a home server is to serve music or videos to home entertainment equipment. In my case, I’m using the Firefly Media Server (no …
When I blogged about my OpenSolaris Home Server a while ago (no link, sun.com no longer exists), little did I know that this would become my most popular entry in my old blog!
In fact, R.G.(no link, page no longer exists) was so kind to call my …
Yesterday, I cleaned up my home directory at work. I went from ca. 15 GB of data down to 1.1 GB. And I only stopped there, because I didn’t want to spend too much more time cleaning up. Here’s how to do it.
In the previous post …
Spring’s around the corner and the Easter weekend is upon us, giving us some time to sit back, relax and do some spring cleaning!
This also applies to your data, in particular your Email folders and your home directories. In this two-part series, we’ll clean up our email …
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