The following post is from someone who has used ZFS on his home fileserver for a year. It is very well-written and I recommend it to anyone considering doing this. http://breden.org.uk/2009/05/01/home-fileserver-a-year-in-zfs/ Click here for a listing of all his posts on ZFS
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Article about low CableCARD adoption
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Cable-Industry-Shucks-Guess-Nobody-Wants-CableCARDs-104768
CableCARD problems again after all these years!?
Please note the last update at the bottom of this post. The issue was once again solved by a firmware update from Toshiba. — It took more than a month of back and forth to get the CableCARD working in the first place. Once the CableCARD was set up properly and the firmware for...
Apple has a great sense of humor
Due to a power failure, my NAS device was powered down. When the connection failed, the icon used to represent the NAS changed. Normally it looks like a rack-mounted XServe, but when the connection was lost it showed up as an old-school CRT monitor with a Windows blue screen of death (BSOD). Here’s a...
Automatic email alerting of zpool problems and weekly zpool scrub
Since I’m using consumer drives that are prone to failure (one already failed within 2 days, but ZFS prevented any data loss). I am using the script located here: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/scripts/submittedScripts/zpadmin.txt. This will script allows for regular monitoring and scrubs of the pool with email alerting. These next bunch of steps may not be necessary...
Using MDNS to advertise OpenSolaris NAS to Mac computers
This step is not necessary, but it seems like a good idea if you have Mac computers. Create the XML files that tell MDNS what to advertise. (Found this information from here, here, and here. Create /etc/avahi/services/smb.service with the following content: <?xml version="1.0" standalone='no'?><!--*-nxml-*--> <!DOCTYPE service-group SYSTEM "avahi-service.dtd"> <service-group> <name replace-wildcards="yes">%h</name> <service> <type>_device-info._tcp</type> <port>548</port>...