Sunday, June 21, 2015

Keeping up with the Kernels

As filesystems go, ZoL (zfsonlinux) is somewhat unique in that each release should build and run under any kernel from the 2.6.32 "enterprise" version up to the current version at the time of its release.  For example, ZoL version 0.6.4 should work properly under all release kernels from 2.6.32 to 4.0.  This post is the result of some of my observations over several years following and contributing to the ZoL project.

Monday, June 15, 2015

Triviality

Even though I plan on using this blog mainly as a ZFS sounding board, I decided to rename it to better reflect the chaotic nature of my day-to-day work and also to give an excuse for writing posts about unrelated topics.

One such bit of triviality would be the silly shirt I'm wearing in my profile photo (which, BTW, is a copy of my gravatar.com picture).  It is, in fact, a servermonkey.com shirt which was given to me by an associate who picked it up from a trade show.  The other useless piece of information about the picture is that I am, in fact, in a bowling alley.

OK, there, I posted some useless bits of triviality.  Maybe I can post some interesting ZFS stuff soon.

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Yay, I've got a blog!

Uh oh, I've started a blog, what's next?

I'm calling this one "ZFS stuff", but I suppose the most important issue to start with is where this crazy handle of "dweeezil" came from.  Than answer is very simple: I've always liked the connotations of the word "weasel" and would have used it as a handle if it were not such a commonly used word.  Since I was a bit of a Zappa fan in my high school days, and I always though his son had a cool name, I came up with "dweeezil" as a compromise and started using it as a nickname in a few places.  Among others, I'm using it on Github.

Oh yeah, the ZFS part:  I've been trying to help improve ZFS, mainly in its incarnation of OpenZFS on Linux, for several years now and decided I'd start writing about it outside the context of its github site, issue and pull request lists.

I figure this is as good a place as any to post rants, thoughts, ideas, etc. regarding ZFS.