Intel Microcode for Spectre/CVE-2017-5715 – Real performance loss in ZFS
Update as of Jan 14, 2018: VMware Recommends not applying patch Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately (which would have been convenient) you probably know about the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that have caused a huge stir in the IT industry. There are three CVE’s associated with these vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-5715 (Spectre) CVE-2017-5753 (Spectre) CVE-2017-5754 (Meltdown) The purpose of this blog entry...
The Little R620 that Could – 40TB ZFS/ESXi in 1U!? Part 1
Check out this article where we build a 1U box capable of housing 40TB worth of storage while also serving as a serious ESXi host!
832 TB – ZFS on Linux – Configuring Storage: Part 3
Probably one of the more technical blog entries I’ve made, this one guides you through setting up the “ZFS” portion of “ZFS on Linux”
832 TB – ZFS on Linux – Setting Up Ubuntu: Part 2
As you’ve probably guessed, this post is going to cover installing the OS in the case of my ZFS on Linux build(s). This is heavily subjective. There are right and wrong ways of doing things, but there is also a ton of “yeah, that’ll work” in the middle. There are Linux admins out there who, first things first, will change the terminal colors, unify UIDs and GIDs across multiple systems, create aliases for...
Native Encryption for ZFS on Linux is here!
You heard right! Click here to read about the github commit Tom Caputi has signed off on the patch for encryption in ZFS on Linux! The part that really caught my eye reads: The last addition is the ability to do raw, encrypted sends and receives. The idea here is to send raw encrypted and compressed data and receive it exactly as is on a backup system. This means that the dataset on the receiving system is protected using the same...
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