March 28, 2007
My Favorite Firefox Plugins
Posted by: admin : Category: Bits and Bytes
Here’s a list of my favorite Firefox plugins:
No big list after all, but essentially all I need.
March 21, 2007
Extract boot image from bootable "El Torito" CD-ROM
Posted by: admin : Category: Utilities
Bootable “El Torito” CD-ROMs usually use a boot loader such as isolinux. The loader will allow to boot any particular disk image located inside the iso9660 filesystem.
This makes it very easy to change a particular boot image. It’s merely a matter of picking the right file, changing it and burning a new CD-ROM.
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March 17, 2007
FreeBSD software RAID1: gvinum vs. gmirror
Posted by: admin : Category: FreeBSD
Back in January I introduced an upcoming series about FreeBSD software RAID implementations and how they compare to each other.
I know it’s been some time since, but I was kept busy on some other stuff which prevented me in polishing up the results. My appologies for the delay.
Now, in this article I’m going to talk about FreeBSD’s gvinum and gmirror for disk mirroring (aka RAID1).
The benchmark results shown below will illustrate the difference between these two implementations. To get a better idea of their real meaning, I’m providing you with the single disk results as well.
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