Whenever a post somehow critical of zfs or Sun shows up on the blog or in an email to a list, within a few hours, someone starts email-bombing us.
Hmmmm……….
Correlations do not imply causality. But they are damn suspicious.
Update: I should also note that someone took the time to even try to subscribe me to several mailing lists. Wow. The value of this is …. what?
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many things going on … busiest JackRabbit month on record. We moved into a new facility, migrated servers, setup a new phone system, setup a new lab, started the online store (still not complete, but ready to take initial orders!), … yadda yadda yadda.
I won’t say JackRabbits are flying off shelves … though I could say they are hopping off them (JackRabbits don’t have wings after all).
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TerraScale were an innovative bunch that developed some interesting technologies around the xfs file system, and made it scale in a cluster. Some time ago, Rackable bought them.
Now it appears that Rackable is pulling back from this market, and is putting TerraScale … er … RapidScale on the auction block.
Ok, its not quite like this … they have engaged a financial advisor to “seek strategic alternatives” for the group. This is usually corporate-speak for “we don’t want to be in this business any more, and will sell the IP, the group, and the brand to someone … if we don’t get what we are looking for, we will just shutter it.”
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JackRabbit-M
run of bonnie++ 1.0.3 no patches, run in the usual way.
bonnie++ -u root -d /big -f
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JackRabbit-M [you will be able to order these online in short order from our store]. More tests, more burn in. I will describe this unit in a moment. We are taking this one out to the test track. Running a few time trials.
Cracking the throttle.
Wide open.
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For those not familiar with this vernacular, a 2×4 (two by four) is a bit of wood, 2 inches by 4 inches in cross-section. It is sometimes brandished as a defensive or offensive weapon. You use a 2×4 to beat someone into submission … or, more correctly, a metaphorical 2×4 … lest you wind up on the wrong side of the law.
This post is about the actualization of the metaphor. Systems admins and support folks will call this a LART. There are several alternative but quite similar definitions of a LART. Ok, we aren’t a LART. We are more of a VART. Change the “L” word to “Vendor”.
This is also a post I have worked on, on and off over the years. I have sometimes thought of writing it, and as a catharsis, I had. Deleting it right away. Wouldn’t make sense to publish it. Or maybe it does. I dunno. So, here it goes.
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No … really boring.
Click click click …. (iterate N times) click. You are done.
Whatever happened to those fun moments of abject terror when you realized you just blew away an important DB table …
Good job WP folk.
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In moving to our new facilities, we changed from an 11 Mb/1.5 Mb line to a 6 Mb/0.8 Mb line. This was due to the availability of service to that area. Yeah, we could do a 1.5 Mb/1.5 Mb T1 line, but this is slow compared to what we had, and our experience with SLAs suggests that they aren’t honored as we might like.
So we installed the 6 Mb line. And rapidly discovered our maximum speed was, to our horror, 1.5 Mb/0.6 Mb. This after we were promised the 6 Mb/0.8 Mb line.
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… and of course, I made it. And then went on vacation. No I am not kidding. Yes, I tested it. No, not the way I should have…
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