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. The

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

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