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Building big NFS servers with FreeBSD/ZFS (1 of 2)
Over the past couple of years, I’ve had the chance to build a number of big file servers for work. Back in January, I wrote a description of the server hardware we used and some of the software...
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Building big NFS servers with FreeBSD/ZFS (2 of 2)
At CSAIL, we support two distributed file systems: AFS, which has a sensible security model (if somewhat dated in its implementation), but is slow and limited in storage capacity, and NFS, for people...
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Some notes on our new generation of ZFS-based file servers
Consistently among the most popular posts on this blog are a series I wrote very early on about our architecture (at work) for big file servers based on commodity hardware, FreeBSD, and ZFS (part 1,...
View ArticleUpgrading FreeBSD from 11.3 to 12.1
Now here’s something more like what I was originally expecting the content on this blog to look like. I’m in the process of moving all of our FreeBSD servers (about 30 in total) from 11.3 to 12.1. We...
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