Category Archives: Computing

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RAID and file system performance tuning

Posted on 25 July, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

The last time I tested software RAID 1 under NetBSD I wasn’t really satisfied with the performance. Especially file system operations were much slower than I expected. Resulting from that my current home server uses an Intel SRCS14L RAID Controller … Continue reading →

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A Looking Glass Into The Past

Posted on 7 June, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

I discovered today that Sun has opened parts of its internal bug database to the public as part of the OpenSolaris project. This allows me to have a look at some of the bugs I fixed in Solaris years ago … Continue reading →

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Hackathon 11

Posted on 26 May, 2008 by Matthias Scheler

David Holland organised NetBSD’s Hackathon 11 at the last weekend. The goal was to fix bugs in preparation for the NetBSD 5.0 release. I decided that this was the best opportunity to fix PR kern/38100 which had rendered my ULTRA60 … Continue reading →

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