Michael W Lucas

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.

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...

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 fil...

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 structu...

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 ...