freebsd

Preambule

You may remember these articles I posted a while ago in the “howtos” category on my website. I had two of them on my ZFS-on-root setup, one on FreeBSD 8.2 for a local machine and one for a remotely managed server on FreeBSD 9.2.

The most important one was the latter as I moved all my services on dedicated servers hosted in datacentres (all managed by Online¹).

My most heavily used machine at Online is getting old now by today’s standards and, to stay within the scope of the aforementioned articles, lacking the cryptographic hardware extensions in its CPU (an Intel Xeon L3426 — as you can see, old :)).

While I was just running my web & mail site out of it, I do not really need blazing fast disks (or I’d have taken SSD) but still, now that I’m sharing stuff with the Transmission P2P client and building my own set of FreeBSD packages for the host and its jails with Poudriere, the bandwidth limitation is taking its toll (35 MB/s without the

AES-NI instructions vs 150 MB/s).

I may also running out of disks space (ahem), the disks are 90% filled…

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The last day of BSDCan is always special: all talks start at 10AM instead of the usual 9AM to account for the preceding night, generally filled with beer and food for some reasons :) It is also when the famous auction is taking place. During the closing session, Dan will auction a few items and the money given to the Ottawa Mission charity. He does that also with PGcon, the equivalent of BSDCan for Postgresql.

But for now, the talks!

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Dan officially opened the conference as usual, under supervision by Groff of course, now a regular attendee of all conferences :)

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Second day of the devsummit at BSDCan. One very important session on the morning, the one about what was finally put into upcoming 11-RELEASE and what we want to have (or at least try to) for release 12.0. See below.

This is a followup on yesterday’s post

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Let’s begin this new series on BSDCan 2016!

As usual, we will have two days of both tutorials and FreeBSD devsummit, a regular event in almost all BSD-related conferences now.

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Last post in my series about EuroBSDCon 2015 — See previous one.

Day 2

I know most of his stuff but listening to Kirk McKusick is always funny as he has a lot of stories to tell about all these days a Berkeley :) — This time it was about the history of the

BSD Fast File System .

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This is a followup post on the one about the EuroBSDCon FreeBSD devsummit that you can find here.

This conference is dedicated to the late Paul Schenkeveld who passed away a the beginning of the year. Paul was President of the EuroBSDCon Foundation and a friend to us all.

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…and we are back for a new BSD-related conference :)

Now we are talking about the FreeBSD devsummit, taking place two days before the EuroBSDCon conference. This year, it is in Stockholm, Sweden.

Like last year in Sofia, Bulgaria, it is a smaller conference and devsummit compared to BSDCan. The list of topics is available on the FreeBSD wiki.

Our hosts this year are the company called Init, big thanks to them!

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Talks

This is the last day of the conference today and I started it with Ed Schouten’s talk on CloudABI. CloudABI is there to add some more secure and testable features to UNIX systems. Something to look into in the future.

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Introduction

BSDCan is having more than 280 people this year and is having an additional track which means 33% more talks \o/

Dan officially opened the conference as usual after playing a bit with the video feed on his phone and we got both of us on the screen :)

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Second day of the devsummit at BSDCan. Two working groups for me (Doc WG and LibXO) and some other things. See below. This is a followup on yesterday’s post

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After the series of articles I did for EuroBSDcon here, let’s begin this new series on BSDCan 2015!

As usual, we will have two days of both tutorials and FreeBSD devsummit, a regular event in almost all BSD-related conferences now.

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Slightly less busy day during the second run of devsummit sessions, although the ones in the morning were pretty important for us.

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