Friday December 07, 2007
Friday December 07, 2007
I won an award for blogging. It turns out that I had the "Best Wow Blog" at CEC.
I am still not sure what exactly a wow blog is. I made a note to see if there was contest information
on SWAN but I haven't checked yet.
Hopefully this isn't a sympathy prize :)
Once I find out a bit more I'll let you know. I did win a prize, more about that later.
RW ZFS and Leopard, my first impressions
Not long ago I posted about installing the RW ZFS beta
seed on Leopard after updating to 10.5.1.
As I said after the end of that post, It does work. On the one hand I haven't had this many system
panics on a mac ever. On the other hand I have repartitioned my laptop and now have ZFS pools
mirrored to an external USB stick and a firewire drive.
Since the simple tests below I have re-installed to get more partitioning flexibility. I couldn't do a live
repartition to get the space I wanted. Every attempt to repartition after the first was informing me that
there wasn't enough space.
first hint: I recommend turning off spotlight indexing on the ZFS volume it seems SIGNIFICANTLY more stable.
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As I said after the end of that post, It does work. On the one hand I haven't had this many system
panics on a mac ever. On the other hand I have repartitioned my laptop and now have ZFS pools
mirrored to an external USB stick and a firewire drive.
Since the simple tests below I have re-installed to get more partitioning flexibility. I couldn't do a live
repartition to get the space I wanted. Every attempt to repartition after the first was informing me that
there wasn't enough space.
first hint: I recommend turning off spotlight indexing on the ZFS volume it seems SIGNIFICANTLY more stable.
[Read More]