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Drive clone in Linux with dd

Monday, February 3rd, 2014

Simple way to clone drives in Linux. Assume drive sda is the source, and sdb is the destination. dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb & PID=$!; which kill -USR1 $PID; & runs dd in the background. PID=$! gets the last process id (of the dd command) Which runs the command every second or two. Kill -USR1 tells dd […]

Crystalfontz LCD – 635 on FreeBSD and OpenSolaris

Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

I have recently gotten a hold of a CFA 635 LCD + Keypad device. Very slick. I was doing some work with it and wanted to use a unix OS to drive the device for some custom work. I ran into a couple minor things when getting the device setup. 1) It works great in […]

When free isn’t free – enforcement of the GPL just because

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

All I can say is wow. I read this article http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142262/Multiple_consumer_electronics_companies_hit_with_GPL_lawsuit today and I am unfortunately not surprised. This is a perfect example of why many developers shy away from the GPL license when distributing their open source code. First, I want to say I am a big fan of Open Source. I have used […]

Recovering from a compressed ZFS root pool

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

Opensolaris and ZFS are great, but not without their limitations. A more recent addition is that Solaris can boot from a zpool, but not if you compress it or raidz it. Only single drives or mirrors, and no compression. A good practice is to setup your root pool for the system, then setup a separate […]

xVM (xen) poor VMDK file performance with ZFS and SATA drives

Thursday, September 24th, 2009

We recently setup an xVM server on a new blade running 24Gig ram and 3 500 gig SATA hard drives. We installed Linux as a Paravirtualized client and we were off. ** A quick note, this post is geared towards those who have poor IO performance running xVM, ZFS, and SATA drives. We have an […]


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