tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-320808822024-09-16T00:51:53.737-07:00Jim Collier's blog of the kinds of ideas that many people—but not all—blog about. Unless they don't, then forget I mentioned it.Jim Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00530453581060373572noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32080882.post-72732236244934643542011-02-08T21:57:00.000-08:002018-07-19T00:44:46.362-07:00

Update 2018-07-18 The landscape for ZFS (and copy-on-write filesystems in general) has changed a great deal since this was published over seven years ago in 2011. Though, not necessarily in the way anticipated back then. (Won't it be interesting to see what the next 7 years hold!) Some of the options in the table below are dead projects. Others are still relevant but hold less prominence

Jim Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00530453581060373572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32080882.post-87607891583750562842011-02-08T15:27:00.000-08:002018-07-19T00:51:41.433-07:00

To read the many glowing reviews of Nexenta, would lead one to believe that they took Ubuntu, and slapped in the good essentials of OpenSolaris (namely the amazing ZFS).First let me disclaim that I don't mean to disparage the good folks at Nexenta, nor the accidental spreaders of misinformation working in tech journalism and active members of tech forums. Although Nexenta themselves don't go to

Jim Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00530453581060373572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32080882.post-43290594703010041012010-03-12T19:48:00.000-08:002018-07-19T00:25:52.637-07:00

Table of contents Introduction In a nutshell Upshot Background Hardware specs Server and administrative use case The Good ZFS pool redundancy magic RAID-Z Mirroring Other ZFS benefits The Bad The Ugly Conclusion and next

Jim Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00530453581060373572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32080882.post-74934049118207202822010-03-09T21:00:00.000-08:002010-03-12T19:52:24.390-08:00

Table of contents A quick primer on cross-platform Windows file-sharing Samba.org's Samba service OpenSolaris' native ZFS CIFS/SMB service ZFS CIFS/SMB vs. Samba Conclusions and recommendation A quick primer on cross-platform Windows file-sharing SMB ("Server Message Block") was the original Microsoft Windows file and printer sharing protocol. (Actually a collection of

Jim Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00530453581060373572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32080882.post-66181604290010299342009-12-15T21:51:00.000-08:002018-07-19T00:57:59.294-07:00

According to estimates from many industry experts (as well as historical trend extension), in roughly 30 years the average home computer will surpass the computational power of all human brains that ever lived, with just a few seconds of work. (Saying nothing necessarily of the value produced.) Even if the best thinkers and technologists are off by factors of a thousand in the variables assumed

Jim Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00530453581060373572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32080882.post-1155016869271611872006-08-07T22:56:00.000-07:002018-07-19T01:03:28.946-07:00

The blog tool deathmatch has resulted in some interesting twists.  If you recall (or not), I was digging Windows Live Spaces.  And I really hated MySpace.  I liked Blogger, and was undecided on Yahoo! 360.Well now that I'm halfway through the comparison, some things are becoming clear:Yahoo! 360 is a big DNF.  It's nice and pretty, but it has one fatal (if otherwise minor)

Jim Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00530453581060373572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32080882.post-2826826313894154342006-08-01T20:41:00.000-07:002018-07-19T01:30:47.071-07:00

From my just invented series, "How To Do Slightly Difficult Things"…Capturing lightning was really difficult with 35mm film. I know because I spent many years trying to do it, only rarely successfully. That's because film had one major disadvantage compared to modern digital cams: a severely constrained number of shots. Relatively speaking. (I used to think going through 10 rolls of film

Jim Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00530453581060373572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32080882.post-85612644992636834762006-07-13T02:13:00.000-07:002018-07-19T01:27:40.155-07:00

My first “real” job at 15 was at Chuck-E-Cheese. How fun was that. I got to dress up as a mouse with a big creepy pink foam tail. (I could have sworn the popular girls my age gave me mysteriously indelicate glances, which to this day I’ve never experienced out of costume. Hmm...maybe I should think about spicing things up with Kathy by finding a used Chuck-E-Cheese costume on eBay!)Whenever I (

Jim Collierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00530453581060373572noreply@blogger.com