Monthly Archives: January 2011

Growing a ZFS pool

I run several fileservers using the excellent ZFS filesystem. While originally a Solaris invention, it was successfully ported to FreeBSD for version 7. It is extremely well suited for large fileservers due to a combination of reliable software RAID (modes 1, 5, and 6), checksumming and snapshots. Combined with the option of nested filesystems and […]

January 17, 2011 – 15:41 | By Itsacon | Posted in Unix | Comments (17)

Holy Wars: Mac vs PC

I recently got drawn into another ‘Mac vs PC’ argument , which is a bit silly, as I don’t really like Windows, and don’t really mind Macs (to be clear: I’m always on the Windows-side of the argument). The only real problem I have with Macs, are the users. For some reason, pretty much all […]

January 6, 2011 – 11:09 | By Itsacon | Posted in Mac, Windows | Comments (0)

2011

I wish you all a Happy New Year.

January 3, 2011 – 12:47 | By Itsacon | Posted in Miscellaneous | Comments (0)