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135: What Flunkies Are For
Today I’m working on snapshot replication for OpenZFS Mastery. While some environments require backups be dumped to offline media, others find online backups…
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134: The Clunky NVMe Interface
One PHP Apocalypse later, here’s OpenZFS Mastery on NVMe. The slowest, most complicated, and most error-prone part of an SSD is the Flash Translation Layer…
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133: Cleverness Is Your Only Option
Here’s a tidbit of OpenZFS Mastery about replication. Replication also greatly simplifies migrating data, even huge amounts of data over ridiculous distances…
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132: A Monstrous Heap of Redirections
I’m pushing to complete a first draft of OpenZFS Mastery in the next few weeks. Here’s a bit on ZFS and lightweight virtual machines. Lightweight…
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131: Lucas is Incompetent or Evil
Folks sometimes forget that OpenZFS Mastery has a co-author. Here’s a bit Allan Jude originally wrote. But what if Lucas is incompetent or evil? You give…
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130: Meticulous Adherence to Arcane Unofficial Procedures
OpenZFS Mastery uses FreeBSD and Proxmox as reference platforms. Here’s a bit about why. Proxmox is a Debian variant focused on virtualization, developed by…
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129: The New Linker Strangles
OpenZFS Mastery has reached chapter 9, on boot loaders. The most tediously terrifying system administration task is an operating system upgrade. The new kernel…
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128: Filthy Land Animal Lungs
There’s one story in Twisted Presents I haven’t read here, so that’s what you get. This isn’t a fairytale, but: Once upon a time, we were all…
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127: A Fifth of Makers' Mark
I’ve just finished prepping the print version of Twisted Presents, so here’s a tidbit from one of the stories therein. The first Hogswatch Eve after the…
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126: Low Distress Tolerance
I finished the OpenZFS Mastery chapter on volumes earlier this week. Zvols support sparse volumes, also known as thin provisioning or overcommitting storage. A…
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125: A Useful Quirk
I’m trying to finish up the OpenZFS Mastery chapter on disk space use today. Well, my part of it. I’m planning to dump–delegate…
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124: Clones Can Grow
I’m writing about space usage OpenZFS Mastery. ZFS offers tools to transparently increase the amount of data you can fit on a disk. Rather than requiring…
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123: Excuses Weighed Nothing Against Ice
Probably jinxing myself by posting this, but: here’s a chunk from Twisted Presents. Three nights ago had been the Longest Dark, the strongest night of…
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122: Gawk at Others' Past Mistakes
OpenZFS Mastery is starting to pick up momentum. Don’t look at it too closely. You might scare it. First, note how ridiculously wide this VDEV is. A…
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121: Possibilities Multiply
OpenZFS Mastery is starting to roll lunch again. Hoping to get some intertia with it. But create a dataset for each team, and give each site its own dataset…
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120: The Pool Reverts
Here’s a chunk of OpenZFS Mastery. I’ve caught up to where I stopped, and new words will be coming soon. Pool features that are enabled are…
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119: The Sixty-Seventh Son of the Duke of Horsehead
I’ve been going through OpenZFS Mastery but don’t feel like reading a chunk of it, so here’s a tidbit of a story I’m putting out this…
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118: Several Thousand Minor Details
I’m not back at work full-time, but I am starting back and paging the OpenZFS Mastery manuscript back into my skull’s RAM. Here’s a tidbit. Compression…
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117: Cardamom Seasoned with Damp Poodle
Yes, there’s been a gap. I would have announced it, but I didn’t know and then every week I thought I might start again. But I didn’t. My…
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116: A Made Up Excuse
I’m hurriedly throwing together a talk for NYCBUG on 1 April, and so had to disinter the best sentence I have ever written. All of those books, and my best…
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115: Both Sides of a Mirror Have Errors
I’m working on OpenZFS Mastery’s discussion of self-healing with a completely plugged ear, so I have no idea how this sounds. OpenZFS uses hashes almost…
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114: 98% Free from Arthropod Infestation
My new FreeBSD Journal column just went to the editor. Oh AWOL, my succulent summer child, You’re the latest model of Human(tm), a digital native…
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113: Destroying Performance
Talking pools in OpenZFS Mastery, which means yet again talking about blocks and sectors and alignment. GPT partitions fill a number of sectors. If you…
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112: A Special Uberblock
OpenZFS Mastery is staggering along. Here we talk about how ZFS maintains uber-integrity. Not having dedicated special index blocks sounds great, but every…
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111: Artifically Prolonged, Unnecessarily Stressful
Here’s OpenZFS Mastery on physical labeling. I have strong feelings on this. Develop a consistent naming and numbering scheme for your storage arrays…
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110: Resorting to Extraordinary Means
Work is underway on OpenZFS Mastery. ZFS can run on anything the operating system presents as a block device. The most common are disks. Spinning rust, SSD…
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109: We Won't Live Long Enough
Yes, I’ve been missing for a few weeks. Caught a bad case of Life. Here’s some OpenZFS Mastery. ZFS advocates claim that ZFS is immune to these…
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108: Spent Decades Writing Scripts to Parse df(1)
With Networking for Systems Administrators production wrapping up, OpenZFS Mastery is starting to lurch forward. Here’s a tidbit. ZFS combines…
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107: Which Drive Is It?
Have some OpenZFS Mastery. “ZFS reports that one of the seventy-nine drives in our array is failing? Great! We can replace it in a convenient maintenance…
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106: That Version of GRUB
I skipped last week due to Excessive System Administration, but here’s a snippet from OpenZFS Mastery. Lucas’ virtualization host for testing this book ran…
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105: A Fully Patched ShroomOS
Here’s a tidbit from the backers-only special edition of Networking for System Administrators. All those shrooms were one interconnected, internally networked…
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104: Software RAID on Windows 3.1
“Trust” seems to be a recurrent theme of the OpenZFS book. Here we discuss so-called hardware RAID. All RAID is software RAID. Your hardware RAID…
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103: We Can't Trust
Last week’s episode was called on account of covid. My brain is only lightly friend today, so here’s a bit of OpenZFS Mastery. Storage is a…
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102: My Chief Goon
I’m at EuroBSDCon in Croatia teaching TLS and SMTP, so here’s a snippet from my TLS tutorial. Let’s say I create a public key pair. I keep one key of the pair…
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101: The Hearing's Gonna Be Lit
The Networking for System Administrators Kickstarter is running full steam ahead, so I’m making words on OpenZFS Mastery. It’s a second edition of…
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100: The First Rule of System Administration
I can’t believe I’ve done 100 of these silly things. Anyway, here’s a tidbit from my next FreeBSD Journal Letters column. Don’t give me that…
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99: An Absence of Moral Fiber
I’m swamped doing math for the networking book kickstarter, trying to compensate for the recent political stupidity that’s kicking small business when…
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98: Suffering Builds Character
The new edition of Networking for System Administrators just went to copyedit, so I can forget about it for a few weeks. The people who most deserve credit for…
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97: Tortuous Negotiations
I’m buried in tech edits for Networking for System Administrators, but this bit explains why I wrote the book. I’ve been in more than one IT organization where…
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96: Enough Coal for All the Children in Des Moines
The Twisted Presents Kickstarter is delayed for stupid logistical reasons. It will launch, but not on time. Still, here’s a chunk from Heart of Coal in…
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95: He's Gonna Get It Anyhow
It’s so hot my face is melting, so let’s do a bit of my forthcoming Christmas collection. Today. It has to be today. A year ago, Mister Armand…
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94: I'd Derailed Her
Reading Christmas tales while the AC is going full blast is kind of weird, but here’s a bit of The Last Multivariable Differential Christmas, from the…
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93: Our Voluminous Chef
Sorry I missed last week. BSDCan ate me alive, but I escaped before I got digested. Here’s a bit from a Rats’ Man’s Lackey tale appearing in…
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92: Contradict My Lived Experience
I’m recording this week at BSDCan. While I got away from the power drill, I fear there’s noise from the highway. Sorry. Here’s a bit from the…
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91: Vice Without a Biological Limit
Networking for Systems Administrators is out for tech review, so I’m working on my forthcoming Christmas collection. Here’s a snippet from Twisted…
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90: Demands a Little Madness
Now that Laserblasted is available in my store, here’s one final snippet from that book. For all you might hear about stories of weapons haunted by previous…
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89: Cheap Cat5 Cable
I’m grinding on the new Networking for System Administrators so here’s a chunk. Ultimately, the Internet is a bunch of routers, switches, firewalls…
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88: The Same Bucket
The garbage truck that exploded outside my house means I am karmically bound to share a piece of the networking book. Authoritative nameservers contain the…
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87: Farawayistan is Fubar
(Trouble this morning. Had to pull and republish this episode. Sorry if you see it twice, or if it didn’t work the first time.) I really do need to get…
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86: Take Quite a Long Time to Fail
Here’s a chunk of the networking book. Standard netstat attempts to show hostnames instead of IP addresses. This means your server performs a reverse DNS…
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85: George is Asleep
Here’s some of the new Networking for System Administrators, because while the Laserblasted Kickstarter ends today I am utterly sick of shilling it. Think of…
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84: A Fresh Hot Burger
The Laserblasted Kickstarter is still going so technically, I ought to share a snippet from that. It’s the last chance for that to be a work-in-progress…
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83: Pretty Much The Same As Today
The grand reveal: #projectIDGAF had a title all along. And seriously, I couldn’t have written this book if I GAF. It’s now on Kickstarter, because…
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82: Lying to All Sides
Project IDGAF is complete, so I’m back on the new Networking for System Administrators. Network address translation, or NAT, uses a device that accepts…
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81: An Occasional Meal
Zeno’s Paradox of Book Endings is well in play for Project IDGAF. Only a couple scenes left, but damn if this book ain’t fighting me hard. Thirty…
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80: Mentally Stable People
I’m gonna finish this book. I’m gonna finish this book. It doesn’t matter how much life tries to stop me, I’m gonna finish this…
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79: Creepy As Chad
The “Project IDGAF” Terminal Death March is upon me, so here’s a tidbit You people in the special effects department need to pay attention here. Yeah, I…
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78: Parentally Mandated Assholes
I’m still grinding to get “project IDGAF” done by the end of the month, so here’s a snippet from it. The average party has a handful of actual friends and a…
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77: The Wrong Kind of Clever
The networking book is heavy in command line stuff, which I’m not going to read. Here’s another chunk of the fiction project. The driver had a…
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76: Freedom Costs Five Cents a Can
A chunk of the current fiction project. The Barrens might be uninhabited, but people live near enough to hear when some damn fool gets their hands on dynamite…