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Recent Posts

Blastwave is dead

Earlier on today, the main Blastwave website got replaced by this message :

Building a redundant iSCSI and NFS cluster with Debian - Part 2

This is part 2 of a series on building a redundant iSCSI and NFS SAN with Debian.

Building a redundant iSCSI and NFS cluster with Debian - Part 1

It’s been a while now since I last updated this blog with any decent material so I thought I’d dust off some of my notes on building a redundant iSCSI and NFS SAN using Debian Etch.

ZFS Replication

As I’ve been investigating ZFS for use on production systems, I’ve been making a great deal of notes, and jotting down little "cookbook recipies" for various tasks. One of the coolest systems I’ve created recently utilised the zfs send & receive commands, along with incremental snapshots to create a replicated ZFS environment across two different systems. True, all this is present in the zfs manual page, but sometimes a quick demonstration makes things easier to unders...

ZFS as a volume manager

While browsing the ZFS man page recently, I made an interesting discovery: ZFS can export block devices from a zpool, which means you can separate "ZFS the volume manager" from "ZFS the filesystem". This may well be old news to many; however I haven’t seen many references to this on the web, so thought I’d post a quick blog update.