Not that I mind so much, due to the subject matter, but Obama has started playing partisan politics in the most dangerous arena ever. College basketball.

I’m totally thinking of joining up. All I need to find out is where to send my dues.

ZFS uses Access Control Lists for permissions – which allows a much finer grained access structure for files. Sadly, no one else uses the ACL’s that ZFS uses (yet), and when a client writes a file over NFS, CIFS or AFP, the effective ACL’s aren’t displayed on the server. Through the power of Google, I found a blog entry with an ACL that fixes the ACL display problem.

chmod -R A=\\
owner@:w:d:allow,\\
owner@:w:f:allow,\\
everyone@:rxpdDaARWcCos:d:allow,\\
everyone@:rpdDaARWcCos:f:allow \\
/tank

Honestly, the following stories are the reasons I loved Wired so much when I used to get dead-tree copies of it (and before they replaced the management, and killed the heart and soul of the magazine). They are also the kind of stories that make me wonder if I actually could be happy being a journalist.

First, a true story about the world’s largest diamond heist. Estimated damages – between $20 and $100 Million USD.

Second, the crackup of Gizmondo, and the bizarre tale of the Eastern European criminals running it. Yes – this is the story that begins with a Ferrari Enzo exploded across the Pacific Coast Highway, and only gets stranger as the tale goes on. And it’s %100 true.

Yes, the stories are pretty long – but they are worth sinking your teeth into and enjoying.

I’ve upgraded my home storage server with a new power supply and a new case. These have addressed my two largest problems with my initial build – the ease of getting drives in and out of the case, and the ability to keep all the drives spinning, all the time. That last one shouldn’t have been an issue, but cheap capacitors and cheap molex connectors for the drives made my life interesting.

Additionally, I’ve gone a much more conservative route with the layout of the zpool, which I think makes perfect sense. More after the jump.

I had been using a raidz (or raidz1) pool – essentially a RAID5 setup in ZFS parlance. Between the old failmode=panic directive, and the flakey power supply, I wound up having to do a lot of work trying to recover my zpools. Additionally, it doesn’t make sense to make pools smaller than 4 disks – which means that you have to add disks in sets of 4. That is too high a cost burden for me to bear at the moment, so this time around, I setup the pool with 2 mirrored vdev’s. I’ve got one 750 GB SATA drive as a spare at the moment, ready and willing to take over for a disk that fails if that is needed. The plan is to get another 750 at some point, and then run the pool with 3 mirrored pairs. After that, all upgrades will be to larger capacity drives, which I can buy in pairs without too much pain. Then, it’s a simple zpool replace tank disk1 disk2… at least, that’s the plan.

We’ll see what happens.

Born on February 22nd, 2009 at 12:19 PM

He’s the reason I’ve been really bad at posting recently. I’m going to get back into the swing of things in the next few weeks, but it’s going to take some time. There’s lot of pics of him up on flickr and I’ve posted (and will post) a number of pictures on the photoblog side of this site.