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Comment on Hardware History by George

George — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:41:03 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write that, I found it very detailed. If you get a chance you should visit my blog as well. I hope you have a good day!

Comment on Indiana Preview 2: Installing to a 4GB CF card by Yaniv

Yaniv — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 06:51:57 +0000

Thanks for the clear and simple instructions. I wanted to ask about memory wear avoidance, since you’re writing on flash media.

If this was Linux, I’d probably make the root volume read-only and send changes to an overlay (unionfs) partition, which can be explicitly disabled temporarily when I want to write to it.

Is there a similar solution for Solaris in this regard?

Comment on Goals for my NAS Project by Owen

Owen — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 17:27:51 +0000

Hi Mark, how is the project going 34 days on?

My LinkStation (didn’t have the $$ for Terra at the time) is just about full so I’ve been doing extensive research over the last few days. I’ve always wanted my NAS to do more for me. Currently I’m stuck with leaving an old computer on to serve my Roku and my TiVo. I realise that I could try to hack one or both of these functions into the Linkstation itself… However, with the Linkstation holding the backup of all my irreplacable data I’m not about to fool about on that level.

So all my reading is pointing me towards ZFS on commodity x86 gear in a small/quiet/cool case. I’m leaning towards Solaris with their integrated CIFS and because their ZFS implementation is going to be the first with any new fixes or features.

I haven’t dug into the OpenSolaris hardware compatibility list yet so I’m dying to see what you’ve chosen. I’ll be subscribing to the RSS of your blog at home.

-Owen

Comment on Goals for my NAS Project by Jitendra

Jitendra — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 18:22:35 +0000

Hey, cool to see to see you have a blog -Jitendra