DLT labels
Tapes without labels in a library should not happen
DLT drive replacement
Out with the old, in with the new!
Renaming a jail
How to rename a jail
Restoring an INOPERABLE 3Ware unit
Trouble in RAID land
grep, sed, and awk for fun and profit
Using tools for parsing log files
Bacula – copying a job; doing i...
One copy job is good. Three copy jobs is much better!
ZFS benchmark
I have more RAM, how will this affect things?
Bacula – copying a job
Backups have been going to disk. Now it\'s time to copy those backups to tape.
MeetBSD Trip Report: Mark Linimon
The Foundation sponsored Mark Linimon\'s travel to California from October 28th to November 9th, 2012, to attend MeetBSD, the preceding Developer\'s Summit, the postceding Vendor Summit, and to perform work on the FreeBSD systems at ISC. Here is his trip report:Developer Summit:I gave a brief overview of the state of the Ports Collection, and [...]
Lazy Reading for 2012/12/16
I hope you like links, and lots of history. It’s been a bumper crop this week.
The Radio Shack catalog from 1983. Including such gems as 156,672 characters of storage per $600 disk. For perspective, that’s about $4 per kilobyte. A randomly-picked SSD is about 0.000001 cent per kilobyte. Previously linked here: Radio Shack 20 [...]
BSDCan 2013 Call for Papers
BSDCan 2013, which is being held in Ottawa May 17th-18th, has a call for papers out. You’ve got until January 19th to submit, so just about a month.
3.2.2 coming up
There’s been a large number of fixes and improvements to DragonFly 3.2 lately, so I’m planning to roll DragonFly 3.2.2 this weekend so there’s an image with them all.
An education in Python and maybe OLPC
This is mostly unrelated to DragonFly: I need to get more Python experience in the next few months, mostly around the OLPC project. I’ve only messed with Python when needed to get an existing script running, etc. Any Python users that can point me at a good learning resource?
BSD Magazine for December 2012
BSD Magazine for December is out, offering the usual mix of articles in a free PDF. There’s several Postgres articles in this one.
Using gcc 4.7 and pkgsrc
If you were thinking you wanted to try gcc 4.7 with pkgsrc, John Marino’s described the option you need to set. It only works in pkgsrc-master right now (because of changes John made), and not every package in pkgsrc will build.
The advantage is that it’s also possible, with the same syntax, to set pkgsrc to build with gcc (Rea [...]
NetBSD binary kernel modules usable o...
Some years ago I wrote about the possibility to load and use
standard NetBSD kernel modules in rump kernels on i386 and amd64.
With the recent developments in buildrump.sh and the improved
ability to host rump kernels on non-NetBSD platforms, I decided to try
loading a binary NetBSD kernel module into a rump kernel compiled for
and running o [...]
NetBSD binary kernel modules usable o...
Some years ago I wrote about the possibility to load and use
standard NetBSD kernel modules in rump kernels on i386 and amd64.
With the recent developments in buildrump.sh and the improved
ability to host rump kernels on non-NetBSD platforms, I decided to try
loading a binary NetBSD kernel module into a rump kernel compiled for
and running o [...]
How to grind that axe, for donations
Whomever submitted this story to Slashdot really doesn’t like FreeBSD; they’re describing FreeBSD’s annual end-of-year fund drive as failed. The month-long drive is only about a week old and has already picked up donations at a faster rate than any previous year’s donation drive, but apparently the poster – and [...]
3.3 users, please do a full buildworl...
If you’re running DragonFly 3.3, make sure you perform a full buildworld and buildkernel when you next upgrade. Sascha Wildner is mentioning this as a cautionary note after experiencing issues when using quickkernel, after removing a number of syscalls. Once past that point, it should be safe to go back to quickworld/quickkernel.
*Stunning News Website Fundraising Co...
Astute readers of our blog know that The FreeBSD Foundation\'s annual year-end fundraising drive began last week. Every year over 50% of our donations arrive during this campaign. We were thus surprised by coverage on Slashdot and Hacker News suggesting that we were behind in our fundraising goal. We’d never turn [...]
