"They cranked the OpenZFS version up to 5000, leaving Oracle plenty of space to add new version numbers--as if Oracle would EVER innovate rather than merely exploit acquired intellectual property." #nonotryagain #openzfsmastery
"We assume that your disk hardware is identical within each pool: if your mirror has one NVMe and one iSCSI disk, our advice is worthless and so is your pool." #openzfsmastery #nonotryagain
"The important thing is that you pick one naming scheme and stick with it, treating violations like a 1980s evangelical discovering their child's secret Dungeons & Dragons stash." #nonotryagain #openzfsmastery
That's a wrap on the disks chapter. I'd appreciate your backing as I write this book.
Today in #openzfsmastery:
"GEOM lets you get clever with your storage. Don’t be clever. Put your ZFS on top of a partition and leave it the hell alone." #nonotryagain
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QUIC is a great example of the limitations of the seven layer OSI model discussed in Chapter 1. An application requests QUIC transport. QUIC is built on TLS and UDP. QUIC is the application transport, yes, but that transport is built on TCP and UDP. As the sysadmin you need to understand your application’s layers and how they fit on the network layers, but always look for more garbage nailed onto the seven layer model.
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"Many other people have developed ACME clients. For Unix systems, I recommend dehydrated. For Windows, I recommend installing Unix." #n4sa2e #nonotryagain
" #FreeBSD shows netmasks in hexadecimal, but that’s only because it’s for REAL sysadmins."
#n4sa2e #nonotryagain
"NAT offers all the security and protection of a cottage cheese condom." #writing #nonotryagain #n4sa2e
"If I have to explain config options like $dbhost, $dbname, $dbuser, and $dbpass to you, you should NOT be running your own mail server. Give this book to someone competent."
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