Ways to promote FreeBSD?
After using Linux for almost 15 years, I only recently started using FreeBSD. I own an internet startup and was looking for a solution for implementing large-scale storage servers. In my research I found ZFS and subsequently found FreeBSD. As I learned more about it, I was incredibly impressed. There are so many elements of FreeBSD that I love, I've completely ditched Linux and am deploying FreeBSD exclusively on my company's server infrastructure. I can't help wonder why I hadn't heard all about it before. Sure, I knew the name, but I had never seen it in use, either in college or in over ten years as a software developer since then. In contrast Linux is everywhere! Even though there are so many applications where FreeBSD seems to be a better or at least more mature solution. What are the current efforts to promote and educate people on FreeBSD? I'd love to help spread the word. -- Andrew Young Mosaic Storage Systems, Inc http://www.mosaicarchive.com/ Twitter: @MosaicArchive Facebook: Mosaic ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Question on io monitoring tools such as gstat and iostat
I am relatively new to using IO monitoring tools and wanted to confirm I understand them correctly. If I specify an interval of 5 seconds, my assumption is that the data displayed is an average over that 5 second interval. Is that correct or am I misunderstanding how intervals work? Thanks! Andy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
Dispersed storage solutions?
I recently came across a number of really interesting research papers about using erasure coding techniques to store data redundantly across a number of machines. This was pretty exciting for me because I have been looking for this kind of technology for a while. Simply replicating our data is way too expensive for us. I found a number of commercial products that provide this type of solution but they are too expensive for our business model. So ... has anyone used this kind of technology with FreeBSD before? If there isn't an existing project out there, is there enough interest to start one? This paper gives a solid overview of the technology http://www-bcf.usc.edu/~dimakis/RC_Journal.pdf Andy ___ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
