Author Archives: lavajoe

Those who read my previous post know that my number one concern these days is disk data integrity. As disks become bigger and cheaper, their uncorrectable error rates are not improving. That and the other failure points in the chain … Continue reading →

[before you flame me, I know that Linux (Gentoo, in fact) has zfs-fuze, but it is still pretty experimental, and it runs in user space, which makes it noticeably slower] ZFS is Sun’s very cool filesystem. I won’t go into … Continue reading →

For those of you who read my previous blog entry on this subject, you’ll be happy to know that you won’t have to wait much longer for a better Linux terminal experience. That’s right, my patches (sorry, more than a … Continue reading →

I bet you can relate. You find a nasty bug, but every avenue you try leaves your tires spinning in mud. Google searches are mostly fruitless (or there just isn’t a way to formulate a good query), and no one … Continue reading →

For those of us with a long Unix/Linux history, one of the most cherished, useful, and powerful key combinations is Ctrl-C. Doesn’t it just give you a satisfying feeling to kill that process that is running amok, spitting loads of … Continue reading →

Here it is! The first post to my Gentoo blog. Yay! I’m a very new Gentoo Developer (almost 1.5 months!), and I guess the reason I became a dev is that my career has slowly taken me away from development … Continue reading →