Crime writer. Many of these crimes involve computers.
I m writing about space usage OpenZFS Mastery. ZFS offers tools to transparently increase the amount of data you can fit on a disk. Rather than requiring the system administrator to compress and decompress individual files, ZFS uses efficient compression at the filesystem level. While compressing logs during rotation makes the files look smaller in ls(1), Continue reading "124: Clones Can Grow"
I commission custom art for the IT Mastery books, but do the text layout myself. Most often, I use the Minion Pro for the body font and Myriad Pro for the display font. They re staid, reliable, and unremarkable. On rare occasion, the topic demands a particular font. That s straightforward; I must distort the design until Continue reading "Cover Font Headaches"
This post went to Patronizers in July and to the public in August. Not a Patronizer? You could be! It s 98F outside and will remain so for the foreseeable future. Settling into the new apartment continues. My master plan for a smaller desk I can wheel onto the balcony is almost complete, but it s 98F Continue reading "July s Jangada Sausage"
Probably jinxing myself by posting this, but: here s a chunk from Twisted Presents. Three nights ago had been the Longest Dark, the strongest night of the year. A night for the clan to come together and declare the year’s struggles, to mark the end of feuds and wars. Even living clanless and bereft, Mha had Continue reading "123: Excuses Weighed Nothing Against Ice"
I ll be in Seattle this next week for writer business, but at 7PM this Thursday, 30 July, I ll be at Sirena Gelato in Kirkland, Washington. Feel free to join me.
OpenZFS Mastery is starting to pick up momentum. Don t look at it too closely. You might scare it. First, note how ridiculously wide this VDEV is. A fourteen-disk VDEV will have suboptimal performance and experience slow death by fragmentation. Also, the devices were named badly. Now that drives have failed, it matters. But we’re not Continue reading "122: Gawk at Others Past Mistakes"
OpenZFS Mastery is starting to roll lunch again. Hoping to get some intertia with it. But create a dataset for each team, and give each site its own dataset within that parent dataset, and possibilities multiply. A team needs a copy of a web site for testing? Clone it. With traditional filesystems, you’d have to Continue reading "121: Possibilities Multiply"
It took a few iterations, but I did it. My main standing desk is 60 by 30 . It s built on wheeled wire shelves. I tried using a small standing desk from Amazon, but it lacked the structural integrity to hold the monitors still while I typed. What I wound up with is another set of Continue reading "Saucer, Separated"
Here s a chunk of OpenZFS Mastery. I ve caught up to where I stopped, and new words will be coming soon. Pool features that are enabled are available for use, but not yet used on any bits on the disk. Your OpenZFS supports a new compression algorithm, but has not actually used it to write any Continue reading "120: The Pool Reverts"
I ve been going through OpenZFS Mastery but don t feel like reading a chunk of it, so here s a tidbit of a story I m putting out this month. The scarred, cratered rear end of the twenty-thousand-year-old wreck hung two meters below my feet like a giant platter dividing the cosmos, filling me with an astonishment even Continue reading "119: The Sixty-Seventh Son of the Duke of Horsehead"