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FreeNAS 9.2.1.2 is RELEASED
9.2.1.2-RELEASE is now up on FreeNAS.org - please come and get it! This point release for 9.2.1 fixes even more issues found in 9.2.1.1 in CIFS, NFS locking, the new .system dataset, ACLs, migration during upgrades, serial consoles, and a few smaller things. All bugs...
ZFS 101 (aka ZFS is Cool and Why You Should Be Using It) by Dru Lavigne
SCALE is an annual conference held at the Hilton LAX in Los Angeles. Every year, thousands of aficionados congregate at the conference to celebrate all things Open Source. At SCALE this year, Dru gave a talk called "ZFS 101 (aka ZFS is Cool and Why You Should Be Using...
SCALE 12x Recap
SCALE was an awesome conference with 11 speaker tracks, over 2,200 attendees, and many open source projects represented. The entire iX team gave it rave reviews across the board. On Saturday, the expo floor was non-stop from 10-6 with everyone at the booth kept busy...
FOSDEM 2014 Recap
FOSDEM was held on February 1st and 2nd in Brussels, Belgium. It was a huge conference with thousands of people. Statistics aren't kept as the conference is completely free and open, but estimates range from 6k people to 10k people. Nearly everyone there had a...
FreeNAS 9.2.1 is RELEASED
iXsystems is pleased to announce that the FreeNAS Team has released FreeNAS 9.2.1. This minor update adds a few new features and fixes almost 200 bugs. Read the full announcement and download the upgrade file over at FreeNAS.org.
NYCBSDCon 2014 Recap
This past weekend, the NYCBUG held a one day conference in downtown Manhattan. This was the fifth NYCBSDCon conference organized by the user group in the past 10 years. The venue was at the same location where NYCBUG holds their monthly meetings. The layout was ideal...
FreeBSD Foundation and iXsystems Collaborate to Further the Cause of High Performance Computing on FreeBSD
iXsystems and the FreeBSD Foundation are pleased to announce they are collaborating on the MEGACORE Project, designed to push the limits of the FreeBSD operating system. The project consists of engineering and prototyping a server to test FreeBSD with major computing...
How Secure can Secure Shell (SSH) be? (OpenSSH VPN tunnelling)
This article is the third part of the series on OpenSSH and configurations and includes tricks which make using the protocol more secure. This article concentrates on Virtual Private Networks supported by OpenSSH. VPN as Virtual Private Network is a set of protocols...
Basic Unix Queuing Techniques
It occasionally happens that our incoming or outgoing data cannot be processed as it is generated or, for some reason, we choose to process it at a later time. A typical example might be a client-server system, where it is necessary to queue the socket descriptors of...
Dynamic Memory Allocation in Unix Systems
It is not always possible, at compile time, to know how big to make all of our data structures. When we send an SQL query to the database, it may return twenty million rows, or it may return one. The mechanism by which we persuade the operating system to give us...
